It Is interesting to note that the two great modern structures which excel in height today were built to satisfy two basic human impulses: namely, the urge to congregate and the urge to communicate. The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:33And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. (Genesis 11:3)) was planned with the same ends in view, over 4000 years ago.
The new Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta is claimed to be the world's tallest hotel.
The new 57 million dollar CN Tower in Toronto, is the world's tallest free-standing structure. It was built to provide improved communication facilities.
An insatiable desire to communicate and know what is going on around the world is characteristic of the human race today.
The God-given ability to understand, reason and communicate separates mankind from all other creatures in the world.
But how does man use this marvelous capacity so far as God is concerned? The answer is that so complete is his estrangement from God that he does not know Him. Neither will he receive, much less believe, communications from His Creator.
Despite the fact that God's message to man today is the supreme good news, offering him a full and free salvation and an inheritance with Christ in glory, the vast majority either neglect, reject or openly despise it. A simple illustration of this is seen in the following true story of a modern prodigal who had joined the army and was stationed overseas. Here he became the leader in a worldly set. He was regardless of God, and went deeper into sin, extravagance and debt.
One day he received a letter from home. Finding it contained no money he returned it unread to the envelope and stuffed it into his trunk, saying:
"Just a scolding again, I suppose."
Some time afterward he contracted a serious illness. Lying in the hospital alone and sick of heart, he thought of the letter and asked a comrade to bring it to him.
When he opened and read it he moaned:
"Too late! Too late!"
The letter was from his father. It told him that arrangements were made for the purchase of his discharge from the army. That his passage home was reserved in a certain ship. That he would inherit a fortune and be restored to his rightful place in the family. And that his mother was longing to see him once more.
Poor fellow! How bitterly he cried:
"If I had only read that letter!"
Dear unsaved sinner, the New Testament is God's letter, telling the rich provision He has made for you, not only for time, but for eternity.
It is the gospel— the good news of a free pardon for all your many sins, a place in His family and an inheritance of eternal glory with Christ.
But if God's letter is tossed aside and neglected, is there not a danger that you too may cry: "If I had only read that letter"?