It's not about ME!
The world is filled with some pretty arrogant people. Competition drives us to build bigger and bigger buildings, fancier and fancier homes and earn more and more money. We live in a time and a culture where life is all about ME. Although there are many who outright REJECT GOD and don't even believe in him, I would really say the majority of people don't even give God a second thought. They only think of this life and their own place in the world. This ME'ISM culture started way back in the book of Genesis. Today I was reading about the Tower of Babel. As a kid I was taught that the people who built the tower were trying to be like God, to reach up to him. But that is just not the case: "They began saying to each other, 'Let's make bricks and harden them with fire.' (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.) Then they said, 'Come, let's build a great city for ourseves with a tower that reaches into the sky...






