And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
How do we respond when God does something beyond our perception? Do we feel a need to ‘explain’ God, to justify, critique, apologize or even deny that He did what He said He did? Remember, this is God’s autobiography and He is quoting Himself.
‘Only the beginning of what they will do…” Let us concede that God ‘sees’ beyond our perception and understands consequences we cannot conceive. ‘One people doing whatever they want with all resources and no restraints.’ How do we think that might work out? Have we not several thousand years of history that left to our own whims, we devolve into chaos, rebellion, savagery. Our history is not of becoming more moral, more humane, more upright but the opposite.
Maybe we need to try to see the ‘greater good’ when God might be trying to protect us from ourselves instead of insisting on our own solution to an infinite consequence. Just maybe the mercy of God is that we don’t always get our way.
Pray to see what God sees before you say what you think. Trust God.