Seize the Moment – Day 392
The Stage Has Been Set!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, April 13.
Have you ever jumped into a movie late? The big picture has been set and the main characters have been introduced. You can still enjoy the movie, but you don’t fully understand the story.
The same happens with the Bible. Genesis 11 is the end of the prologue and the setting of the stage for the choosing of Abram in Genesis 12. You most likely know him as the great patriarch, Father Abraham, the man who is considered the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Understanding the story to which he is introduced is very important to understanding the whole!
The Table of Nations were described in Genesis 10, but it is Genesis 11 that explains why the descendants of Noah went from being a unified family tree to scattered branches across the land. Listen to Genesis 11:8-9 which gives you a summary of the Tower of Babel story:
So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
It was the pride and presumption of humanity that led to our disunity, but it would be in the humility of one man that would ultimately lead to our unification with God!
Pride and humility are both forces unto themselves—one divides and destroys; whereas the other unites and builds. Abram believed God whereas the rest wanted to be gods!
Seize the moment and believe God! The stage has been set and you are invited to join the story that unites you to God and builds up God’s people.
Let’s recite this week’s memory verse from 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”