The tower

Genesis 11:1-6 At one time the whole earth had the same language and vocabulary. As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, "Come, let us make oven-fired bricks." They had brick for stone and asphalt for mortar. And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

Then the Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, "If, as one people all having the same language, they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

We have great and powerful possibilities if we direct our strengths, gifts and talent toward good and God. It is when we amass our collective will, and redirect our proclivity for evil, that we get into big trouble.

Brick for brick I doubt that the individuals assembling the tower, were looking much beyond each workday and the rest at the end of it. However, as they began to talk among themselves it became clear that they had the power to challenge God.

It is then true for men that absolute power corrupts absolutely ...