Recall:
Acts 2:46-47 "Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts praising God and having the good will of all the people. And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.
Psalm 4:8
"I will both lie down and sleep in peace; for you alone, O Lord, make me lie down in safety."
Genesis 11:6-7
And the Lord said, "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothning that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
Reflect:
The passage from Acts is so profound, so ideal. But is it too ideal? I wonder if that is the way it actually was. What could a church be like if it "they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts praising God and having the good will of all the people." Is what they experienced so powerful that the issues that tend to create ill will fell by the wayside?
I love the last verse of Psalm 4. My peace, my safety, comes from God.
The story of the Tower of Babel is just so bizarre. Why would God care whehter or not they built a tall tower? And what is with the second-person plural--"we, let us"" Of course, we could assume it is the Trinity. But why the emphasis here and not in the previous story about Noah and the flood? Puzzling.
Respond:
God, you are my safety, I rest in you.
I want to spend the rest of my life with a glad and generous heart, praising God and having the good will of all the people. That is a choice I believe. The circumstances of Acts 2 might have given them a little bump, but at some point, they would have had to make the choice to be that. I am making that choice.
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