Counsel of Confusion

“And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower… lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth… Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth” (Genesis 11:4,9).  “They encourage themselves in an evil matter… They say, Who shall see them?” (Psalm 65:4).  “The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors” (Proverbs 26:10).  “Behold, now is the day of salvation…. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord… and will be a Father unto you” (2 Corinthians 6:2-18). 

There was a city and a tower

Renowned, at last, for its confusion. 

They called it Babel, for God’s power

Disrupted plans for its conclusion.   

The Lord had given His command

To Noah's later generations

To fill the earth in every land,

As God appointed future nations.

Rebellion was an evil matter,

Yet this is what they had in mind

Before God intervened to scatter

Upon the face of earth mankind. 

The counsels of confusion still

Are surely evident today

As mortal men resist God’s will,

And sinners yet refuse to pray.

Yet “Who shall see them?” they have said.

Though now confused, they won’t be later

When God shall raise them from the dead

To stand before their great Creator.

Yes, every knee at last shall bow,

And every tongue shall call Him Lord.

The time to turn to Him is NOW

To find the grace He will reward! 

Lord, we embrace the separation

Dividing all who trust in You

From those refusing Your salvation,

Which You display now in plain view. 

Lord, thank You for Your saving grace

And for the counsel that You give

To find in You our Hiding Place,

And thus forever with You live!