Disperse

So I'm reading Genesis. Of course I'm confused. It's hart do read the Bible. One of the passages that especially caused me to pause today was the story of the tower of Babel. It just didn' seem like it was something to read and just look over.  Later, as I researched and thought, you struck me. You'd said to "disperse" and to populate the earth.  You told them to spread out, not just stay in one place with one people. Yet, it seems that human tendency is to bind together to those you know.  And so they decided not to be scattered.  Funny, how we do that today. How this tendency is still evident throughout the world. People refuse to go out where you send them to, to mix with those you tell them to mix with, to go out into all the world. And we discriminate, bind together in our little social orders and try to look down/separate ourselves from those how are not like us. God, I don't want to be like that. If you want me to scatter, lead me and help me.  I want to be fruitful.

Dear Lord, today I just want to ask that you would be with me. Please fill me with your spirit, envelope my life today with your grace. There's so much work to do. I almost didn't take time out to pray b/c it feels like I have so much to do that there is no time. But there is always time for you. Time is yours. You make it slow down and speed up for your cause.  Please help me find this stuff, help me finish this paper today. Give me your creative genious, order my thoughts. Make my thoughts productive and efficient. Help me to honor you and bring you glory. And in the midst of this day where all I see are letters on a page, and read about all the reasons the world is messed up, as I "study", help me to see you. Somehow. Make my time of study more than just that. I love you. I love you. I love you Lord. It's so good to know you. To have your assurance to have your protection. Your security.

Please forgive me for the things I've said, for the way I've spoken this week. I know I haven't spoken life at times. Cleanse my lips. Make them sing your praise and only your praise.

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