UBC Wed For Life

                         The ruins of the Tower of Babel still speak to us of its ancient ambitions. This history of our ambition isn't buried in sand, it's built into skyscrapers, carved into boardroom tables, and coded into our social media algorithms. From Eden's first grasp to Babel's final collapse, humanity keeps building the same tower with different blueprints. When Unity Becomes Uniformity And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” -  Genesis 11:4 (NKJV). The Tower of Babel wasn't just architecture; it was identity construction. Here was humanity's second great attempt at meaning-making through power, the sequel to Eden's reach. But notice what they sought: not God's glory, but their own name. Not divine connection, but human consolidation. Babel represents the ul...

                                 Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Lord Acton's famous words echo across centuries, but they pale in comparison to an older truth spoken in humanity's first garden, where the original reach for power planted seeds that still bear bitter fruit today. The Gift That Wasn't Grasped In the beginning, there was no grasping. Only receiving. Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground" - Genesis 1:26 (NIV) From the very beginning, humanity was given something sacred: dominion, not domination (Genesis 1:26–28). God placed man and woman in a garden, not a battlefield, and handed them stewardship, not sovereignty. Dominion was a gift, rooted in relationsh...