Remember: GOD LISTENS

Today in our hostile political and immoral social environment, there is growing desperation, fear of one another, bigotry reflected in almost every civic encounter, growing anxiety, and panic attacks, and a nation divided by hate and mistrust that overwhelms our country and points to our inability to solve our problems.

It seems we have placed far too much trust in our own human wisdom by believing we alone without any Godly intervention, can solve the many crises that have crippled our founding Judeo/Christian principles and values. 

In the mid-term 2018 election, there was a sense of hope where we thought we could vote away the many serious civic and political issues created by our own selfishness and lack of national unity. 

Instead, today we find our government deadlocked by further accusations of corruption and a confrontational mindset which may well destroy our republic and position as the world leader in standing for justice and righteousness. Also clearly not understanding the political ethic of compromise.

In the 11th Chapter of Genesis, there is a Biblical lesson we may well learn from the people created after the Great Flood who came together speaking one language and a common speech. 

Because they thought they could accomplish anything they placed in their heart and used their own selfish will together, they no longer had to lean on God or even acknowledging Him as our God. They gathered together with the idea to build the largest tower known to man, the infamous Tower of Babel.

"Come let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves…. “ 

They wanted to demonstrate their superior knowledge and ability to communicate and work together to prove they could solve any issue they confronted and to demonstrate to the new world, that they could take care of their own problems without looking to God for direction. 

They also were filled with pride and selfishness and wanted to make a name for themselves. 

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". Genesis 11:6 

They had actually started to build this new tower with bricks instead of stone. They used tar as the mortar which was a new building material at this time. It could be said humankind had developed a new building technology, where they felt there was no need for God in their plans. 

"They said to each other, Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar". Genesis 11:3 

Imagine if we spoke one language and one common speech and had common goals and had our own selfish plans to prove to God we could resolve our problems and build a tower that reached into the heavens as had never been done before in human history. 

By constructing this towering monument to personal greed and pride we could show the world we simply didn't need God in our lives or great dreams for our future. 

We should not forget they found themselves in this predicament because they were a new people that were created out of the Great Flood. 

The Great Flood was sent to destroy humankind because they had forgotten God and felt they didn’t need God to direct their lives and wanted to live as they pleased. They had lost all honor and respect for God. 

We know from the Bible account, God destroyed the old sinful world, saving Noah and his family with animals of our world to preserve life for a new world.

Without God in their plans, the new people begin to build their great tower to the heavens, and once again man begins to think they didn't need God and could build this great tower that proved they were as creative as God himself. 

God created humankind so that we would celebrate, honor and worship God, not so we would go off on our own with no regard for him. To disregard and dishonor God in spite of His promise to be with us no matter what issues of sin we encountered. 

Right now in our society, there is a belief that we don’t need God to address our national earthly problems much less in our plans to build a new society on Mars in a futuristic space colony. 

We are hooked on the false and broken promises of politicians that we believe will help us to get us by.

It is time we quit relying on man-made solutions and instead of building monuments to humankind’s achievements, and that we must realize we need to call upon God to provide the necessary leadership to keep us on the perfect path. 

Just as God created confusion and disruption, and took away the ability for these people building the tower to communicate with one another, the plans for the great tower were destroyed. 

"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". Genesis 11:8‭-‬9 

We must not rely on any person but must put our trust and faith in God. 

Politicians have proven very clearly they can not bring us out of the confusion and conflict we face. God has clearly created a situation where language and speech confusion has prevented our political infrastructure from being unable to lead us to a place where we can out-create God and do not need His Leadership and Godly Grace. 

If we want to achieve great plans and seek Godly Wisdom, we must quit relying on our own plans and false dreams and the broken promises of our misdirected politicians who want to lead us further from God to more failure and defeat.

I believe very strongly that we are living in a time when the cultural wars are meant to bend and break our faith in God. Without placing our faith and trust in the teachings of the Holy Bible shared with us from generation to generation will cause our life of freedom liberty to be destroyed by the evil forces lurking in every civic debate.

God is still the answer for today...and we must stop trying to make a name for ourselves, or reach goals and objectives without acknowledging that our God must lead the way. 

In God we Trust was a motto placed on our money to remind us, we should never rely on personal or humankind material promises or riches, but to always Trust in God. 

(FLI ~ Faith Latino Initiative) Please keep Faith Latino Initiative Ministry in your prayers. 

Together we can serve The Lord and make a difference. 

"Remember GOD LISTENS"

Rev Fidel "Butch" Montoya