Read Genesis 11 - 17
The Tower of Babel was a great architectural structure built to show off man's greatness. It was not built to honor God.Our monuments we buildmay not be the same as in the days of the Tower of Babel but we sometimes still fancy things as more important than God? What takes our focus off of God? Our homes? Our cars? Our jobs? We should never think more highly of ourselves then of God.
God made a covenant with Abram to make him a great nation. God told Abram to take his family and go to a land that He would show Him. When Abram arrived in Canaan, the Lord said that He was giving the land to him and his descendants. Abram dedicated the land after building an altar to God for prayer and worship and as a reminder of God's promise to bless him. Abram followed God's leading without questioning the why"s, where's, and how's. Do we have blind faith inGod to obey His every word or do we question His words with unbelief? Do we ask God why He was us to follow His plan or do we ignore God's leading and go about doing our own thing?
When Lot was in trouble, Abram was right there to help him out. Are we there when our "brothers/sisters" are in need of help? Abram had courage and was triumphant in battle through the power of God.
God wants us to depend on Him, to trust Him, and to have faith in Him. God doesn't want us to think more highly of ourselves than we do of Him. We are nothing without Him. Is our faith pleasing to God?
In Chapter 17, God changed Abram's name to Abraham. Abraham's responsibility was to obey the covenant that God had made with him. God also changed the name of Abraham's wife Sarai to Sarah and promised to bless her and give her a son. Abraham questioned God and laughed in disbelief. Both Abraham and Sarah were up in years and Abraham thought that Sarah was too old to be able to give him a son. Abraham questioned whether God could make it happen or not. Have you ever questioned God? Do you act on faith or laugh at God in unbelief?
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