THESE race is not yet extinct. They said, “Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered.” Gen. xi, 4. Independence of God was the spirit of their enterprise. One of them said, “Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” Luke xii, 19. Christ directs, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt;” and adds, “seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matt. vi, 19, 33. It is safe, it is blessed, to trust in Him. But Babel-builders do not trust His word, and are striving as hard as ever to build each his tower of wealth, or fame, or other like vanity; and of all such it will soon be said, “Therefore is the name of it called Babel,” that is, confusion. A better trust had David, who said, “The Lord is my rock, in whom I will trust, and my high tower.” Ps. xviii, 2. Of this rock, the Lord Jesus Christ, Isaiah wrote, [Isa. xxviii, 16.] and Paul, [Rom. ix, 33; x, 11,] and Peter, [1 Pet. ii, 6,] “He that believeth on Him shall not be confounded.”
Why have you rejected this chief corner-stone? O quit your foundation of sand, [Matt. vii, 26.] and fly to the rock Christ Jesus!