MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Tuesday May 19, 2020
Topic: Just For Spotlight
Text: Genesis 11:1 – 9
We
build monuments to great moments and people but monuments are more than just
memory aids; in building them we want, above all, to glorify something. We want
to honour a person or idealise an event.
After
the Flood, God made a covenant with Noah and his descendants. But the people
forgot God; His goodness, His deliverance, His judgement, and His promise soon
after that. They became impressed with themselves, so much so that they decided
to erect a monument (Tower of Babel) for themselves. They built their tower to glorify their
greatness but it became, instead, a memorial to their greatest foolishness and human
arrogance.
We
can learn from this passage:
(1)
God is good and merciful to us.
(2)
God is greater than we are.
(3)
All humans are connected by sin.
The
people in this story built the Tower of Babel for the whole world to see
(Genesis 11:3-4).
Today,
people may not build statues, temples, or pyramids, but they still erect
monuments in achievements, expensive clothes, big houses, fancy cars, important
jobs to call attention to them. When these are used as means to give us
personal identity and self-worth, these otherwise worthy pursuits take God’s
place. God gives us freedom to develop in many areas, but not the freedom to
replace Him. What monument have you built for yourself or are you building for yourself?
Food for Thought: What monuments are you erecting to give yourself personal identity
instead of glorifying God?
Memory verse: Genesis 11:4
Prayer:
Help me Lord not to attach self worth to the blessings you have given to me.
Rather, grant that I will use them to your praise and glory.
