“Look!” he said. “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them!” (Genesis 11:6).
The people were trying to build a tower to the heavens. The Scripture says, “Nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them.” Their imagination was so powerful that God decided to send confusion to keep them from accomplishing something for the wrong purposes. Their tower would never have reached heaven, but every step they took higher, took them farther from recognizing God’s sovereignty.
I believe that confusion goes deeper than the surface level of a language, and that clarity comes only when we are born again.
1 Corinthians 2:13-16 NKJV These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. [14] But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. [15] But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. [16] For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
If we as individuals, can get our imagination working right by renewing our mind in the word of God’s Word, for the His purposes, if we will let God paint a new picture on the canvas of our heart and see ourselves as He sees us—strong, healthy, victorious—then we can rise higher and accomplish everything He has put in our heart.
Romans 12:1-2 MEV I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service of worship. [2] Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
It may look impossible, but if you can imagine it, if you can see it through your eyes of faith, God is saying, “Nothing will be impossible to you.” That means you can overcome addictions by forming a new image on the inside. You can break generational curses by creating the right pictures in your imagination. You can go further than you ever thought possible if you will keep the right vision and God’s purposes in front of you.
Matthew 19:26 NKJV But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”