February 23, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, February 23.
The Bible is a book that teaches us in many different ways. There are verses that explain doctrine, there are poems of praise, there are characters who serve as examples. And then there are the stories. As children, these stories are the gateway to understanding who God is, and these stories guide us throughout our lives. One of the most dramatic stories in the Word is the Tower of Babel.
This story is found in Genesis 11. You won’t find the term “Tower of Babel” there, but you will find people who became so full of themselves that they tried to build a structure that would reach to heaven, that would make them as powerful as God. The story speaks to the constant temptation to rely on our own strength, forgetting that we should be completely dependent on Him. But the story also speaks about language, about how God punished the people by dividing them into many different tongues.
Today there are over 7000 languages in the world. Over 400 of them are spoken here in the United States, where 20% of the population has a first language other than English. When I served on staff at First Baptist Rosenberg, a suburb of Houston, we did a study and found that there were 125 languages spoken within 30 minutes of our church. Even here in rural East Texas there are dozens of different tongues. In a time of great division in America, some count language as a dividing line.
But we are connected by our humanity, and by a common desire to be connected. And, no matter our language, we are connected by the love of God, and by the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible has been translated into over 3000 languages. I’ll share this verse in English.
Galatians 3:28 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David cindertex50@yahoo.com
