Focus...

Have you ever started something, maybe a sport just for fun or because you like doing it? Playing for this reason makes the sport so much fun! And when you play for fun winning usually follows, even if not you still had fun, right? After a while, when you start to succeed, winning becomes the main goal and purpose. This pushes fun aside if necessary. At this stage in the game the sport may start to loose its appeal. Why? Because your focus changed from having fun to only being satisfied with winning.

In Genesis 11, the story of the Tower of Babel is told. The people stopped going west and settled in the land of Shinar. There the people started building a city, but more importantly, a tower whose top was to be in the heavens. Later in the story God confuses their language to make them stop. The problem was that the people were building a tower to the heavens to glorify themselves instead of for God and His glory.

As we go through life, let us remember to love and do things for God not to Him or because we love the thing we are doing.

Read Genesis 11:1-9