Building Towers of disappointment

Building Towers of disappointment...this was a message given a couple weeks ago at my church Austin Stone on Genesis 11. If you have the time check it out! It is truly worth listening to :)

http://www.austinstone.org/resources/sermons

This is the gest....Ever wonder why you sin? Why you can't just stop? Even though you love God and desire to follow him on any given day sin will be there staring you in the face. So what do we do...we try to stop sinning..which is treating the symptom and not the source. We need to get to get to the source if we are really want the power to over come it. What is so appealing about sin?

Using the Tower of Babel as an example, why did the people find the need and satisfaction in building this great and mighty tower? We can find some of these reasons in our own life for satisfying ourselves with sin.

1.A sense of home
2.A sense of greatness
3.A name for ourselves

We were created to have these desires and to have them met! They are not bad. We look for these things and long for them because we once had it all...in garden of Eden before sin. Our home is with God, our greatness is with God, God knows our name!So why do we sin...because we try to meet those needs/longings with other things that only God can fill!

We all long for significance.

Psalm 139:17 How precious also are your thoughts towards me,O God! How fast are the sum of them! If I should count them they would outnumber the sand. When I awake I am still with Thee.

How comforting is that? I would be THRILLED if God thought of me even once a day! Oh how He loves us...His thoughts twards us we can't even count. Who will ever love us that much? The good, the bad and ugly and He still thinks of me! He still loves me!

Our number one purpose in life is to know Him! Not to find our soul satisfaction in our goals, our degrees , our relationships or possessions.It's not wrong at all to enjoy these things or desire them BUT when we rely on them to satisfy us, give us our self worth they become an idol unknowingly, an idol that will never satisfy and leave us with disappointment wanting for more . We are to find our satisfaction in Him! He is more than enough for me :)