After the flood ended, God commanded Noah and his sons to multiply and replenish the earth (Genesis 9:1). It didn’t take mankind very long to disobey. Instead of spreading out and filling the earth, people decided to take a different course.

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.”

God said spread out, but people didn’t want to be scattered. Human pride said I want to make a name for myself, not I want to glorify God. Just as in the garden, men chose their own will over God’s will. And so it has been.

Centuries later, Jesus Christ prayed in a different garden: “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.”

Whose example do you want to follow? Man’s disobedience or “Thy will be done.”

The Psalmist said, “Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.”