Email woes - part 2, by Rachel Smith

Part 2- The internet and the Tower of Babel

As you recall from my last post I was having email problems. The specific problem was my provider tightened security and even the people I wanted to receive email from were now going to my “junk” folder. Additionally, anyone else who used this same email provider as I had all of my emails going to their “junk” folders. The result was confusing and frustrating and communication was cut off.

The internet can be an awesome and wonderful tool, but it can also be the source of great sin. Because the email tool was not used for pure communication (spam- advertising-unwholesome talk), the provider had to tighten security and make it harder for people to communicate. The intent is to protect us from ourselves.

The LORD also confused the people’s speech at the tower of Babel. The people could have used their clear understanding of one another to accomplish anything, but instead sin crept in in the form of pride and honor. The people used this great tool not to honor God, but themselves.

How will you use your email today?

Genesis 11

The Tower of Babel

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.