Language is a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols. It is necessary in dealing with people especially that we try to connect with them in every possible way.
Like in the tower of Babel, the Lord’s word says that the whole world spoke the same language, using the same words. While men were migrating in the east, they came upon a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another, “Come, let us mold bricks and harden them on fire.” They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for the mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so they make a name for themselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.”
The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men had built. Then the Lord said: “If now, while they are one people, speaking the same language, they have started to do this, nothing will later stop them from doing what they presume to do. Let us then go down and there confuse language, so that one will not understand what another says.” Thus the Lord scattered them from the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the speech of all the world. It was from that place that he scattered them all over the earth. (Gen. 11:1-9)
Everything that our Lord has done has its purpose. If we look at the situation at our advantage, we can say that God made a wrong move on that particular event. However, if we see his real purpose, we could understand his will. He didn’t want us to be one and decide for ourselves without his guidance. I believe that when he did that he gave us the challenge to be one even if we had different languages barring against us. We could be one when we acknowledge his presence and ask for his guidance and mercy. He didn’t want us to be one yet alone with God. He just wanted us to be willed and one with him all the way through our journey in this life. This is a way why we should follow the word of God.
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