Lost in a world of Semantics!

Consider yourself a student of majestic opulence where you can seat the desires of anyone who is looking at life with a trend towards beauty for everlasting happiness. It may not always appear to be what many would like to attempt in joining you, but those who do will become forerunners of society’s giants of philosophy and theology. .

To become one who understands the magnificence of an immense entity that almost blinds the inner-mind of what opulence can turn people into as they view this creation using man’s intellect and imagination, we must find God’s design for mankind, first.

The magnanimous attempt of becoming like the masters can only work if we allow the creator of everything around us to make the first step of an everlasting world in which we as humans step back in humility, and see God reaching into our insignificant attempts to match his omnipotence.

Great care must be used in trying to parallel what God has handed us. Too many have already taken steps of creativity to become just like God of venturing further to surpass his magnificence. “The whole world spoke the same language, using the same words. While men were migrating in the east, they came upon a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another, “Come let us mold bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar.” Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.” The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men had built. Then the Lord said; “If now, while they are one people, all speaking the same language, they have started to do this, nothing will stop them from doing whatever they pursue to do.” “Let us then go down there and confuse their language, so that one will not understand what another says.” Then the Lord scattered them from there all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel, because the Lord confused the speech of all the world. (Gn 11: 1 - 9).

The opulence of what these people proposed to establish ws begun without God, and each of them found that their magnanimous theory fell short very quickly.

In a world where Semantics may not sound important,we find that without God being the creator and handing us the language that unites all of us we must use the terminology that leads everyone who builds to begin with the word of God, first.

The language of God is found within the bounds of heaven, which is eternity and the ultimate destination for mankind. Herein we will understand and find the opulence of God; realizing his magnanimous reality.

Ralph B. Hathaway