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Reaching Heaven
“And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth” (Genesis 11:4).
God wants us to trust Him for salvation. But society is obsessed with self. It began in the garden with a temptation to be independent of God. It was not long after the flood that men and women attempted to build this tower, “whose top may reach unto heaven.” God stopped their egotistical attempt. Human effort will not bring us to God. We must depend solely on Him for salvation. The Lord Jesus is the only ladder that reaches to Heaven. “And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man” (John 1:51).
Let us die to self today and trust wholly that the work of reaching God is finished in Jesus Christ. There is nothing we can do. It is “not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:9).We can never reach heaven apart from God’s salvation through His Son, and the work of Calvary.
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