This Month’s Biblical Theme is: God is the Creator
The catechism asks: “What is God?” The answer is: “The creator of everyone and everything.” I remember building sandcastles on the beaches as a child. I was very protective and would do everything I could to keep them from being destroyed by other kids or even by the waves. Because the sandcastles were made by me, they belonged to me in a special way.
Because God created everything, it all belongs to Him. He provides and protects because it’s all His. Someone once said, “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, ‘Mine!’” Because that is true, we can trust Him in everything. In Psalm 24:1, David recognized this: well and said this in Psalms 24:1: The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.
-Sam Luce childdiscipleship.com
Tower of Babel: Genesis 11:1–9
God instructed people to fill the Earth. Instead, they chose to gather in one spot and build a city, including a great tower so that they could make a name for themselves. God protected them from their wrong desires by confusing their language. They couldn’t understand each other and stopped trying to build the city. God scattered the people throughout the earth.
God wants a relationship with His people, but it has to be on His terms, not ours. No one is greater than Him. Because He is great and holy, our sin separates us from Him. We can’t do anything on our own to fix that. He has given us a path to a relationship with Him that is based on His grace and forgiveness, not our hard work. Even if we are famous and the whole world knows who we are, it doesn’t matter if we don’t know Jesus.
