My Tower to Heaven
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
Psalms 31:5
When fighting a spiritual battle, the greatest challenge is refraining from conformity. The exhaustion of the fight weakens your willpower, leading you to conform to a worldly way of thinking. Why? Daily entertainment outlets and social media desensitize us into conformity. This spiritual fight is real; it even wakes you in the middle of the night, causing unrest in your soul. Yet, we can find similar unrest in humanity after the flood in Genesis 11 when they had one language and one goal of building a tower to heaven.
How does one build a tower to heaven in this modern age of technology and instant knowledge via Google search? Today, it is called religion. Religion is a human construct that provides rituals and traditions that one can follow, leading to limited fulfillment and unrest. Religion can give a sense of community and connection to something larger than oneself. Yet, religion can lead you down the road of self-worth as you value worldly thinking, especially toward one’s performance toward greatness. Notice the mindset of the descendants of Noah after the flood:
And they said, Go to, 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 abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Gen 11:4 KJV
In this passage of the Scriptures, human efforts are doomed even initially. Building a tower to heaven becomes impossible after you reach 30,000 feet because of the lack of oxygen the higher you elevate. So, religion can elevate one, but never enough to reach God, leading to unrest.
In the New Testament, we surrender our spirit to the Lord when we accept Christ. We seek to align our lives according to His will and not in the efforts of self-worth. Conforming to the world brings unrest, but when one commits his spirit to the Lord, the result is rest.
Remember, God decided to step in and intervene in humanity by creating a division of languages. This division symbolized hope and reminded us to remain true to ourselves and God. Religion may begin with excitement but end with disappointment because religion has no rest. Instead of building a tower to reach God through religion, God has made a tower for man to rest. The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus is God's finished tower for man to reach HIM and find rest.
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God [did] from his. (Hebrew 4:9-10 KJV)
So, I encourage you to surrender the fight to God by accepting His grace and hope; then, you will find the needed rest. Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
