Sixth Friday of Ordinary Time

“If now, while they are one people, all speaking the same language, they have started to do this, nothing will later stop them from doing whatever they presume to do. Let us then go down and there confuse their language, so that one will not understand what another says.” Thus the LORD scattered them from there all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.

The problem with the Tower of Babel wasn’t that people were building it, but rather the reason why they were building it. They were constructing the tower so they could make a name for themselves and not to give glory to God. This glorification of self is founded in the deadliest of sins, pride. They, like Adam and Eve, wanted to make themselves like gods. Because of this, God scattered them and stopped them from building the tower. There are times when we choose to build our lives upon selfish foundations and sooner or later these reasons fail us and we are scattered. There is only one firm foundation to build our lives upon and it is God as our Heavenly Father, our Brotherly Master, and our Holy Spirit. It is in Him that we shall find a name for ourselves which will last forever... Christian!

What have we founded our lives upon? How can we avoid the temptation to glorify ourselves? What can we do to give glory to God?

O Lord, help us to found ourselves on you and nothing else.

Amen.