THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF GOD’S GRACE
Bryan Chapell
They said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.: Gen. 11:4
Other than Christianity, all religions teach that we must do something to reach God., advocating some effort of body or mind. But the scriptures tell us that no amount of mental or physical gymnastics can make that possible. There is not stairway to heaven!
And that’s why the story of the Tower of Babel occurs early in the Bible. Creating our own “stairway to heaven” is not the way to get to God. And the uniqueness of the Christian message is that God came to us in order to make us His own.
Rest assured in this biblical truth, knowing that because we could never do anything on our own to reach Him, our gracious heavenly Father took the stairway down to us!