The bright pink tractor was spinning around and around, and smoke and steam surrounded it. Gallons of alphabet soup came shooting out of the smokestack!
When the smoke and steam cleared away, Gummy Bear and M&M saw that the bright pink tractor was perfectly balanced on the very top of a tall tower. The bright pink tractor was swaying in the breeze and every time they moved the bright pink tractor tipped a little and then regained its balance. M&M said, “Do not move at all until I figure out how to get down from here! If we do not move, then we will not fall and get hurt!” Gummy Bear said, “I am too scared to move, but I think I have to sneeze!”
Gummy Bear was not one of those people who sneeze quietly! His sneeze was huge! The sneeze was so powerful that it pushed the bright pink tractor off the top of the tower! The tractor started to go down the side of the tower, and M&M was trying to turn the tractor so that they would not go straight down to the ground. They started going around and around the tower, dirt, clay, and bricks when flying everywhere! As they were going around and around, they kept going lower and lower, so that they made a spiral pathway from the top of the tower to the bottom of the tower!
The bright pink tractor, Gummy Bear, and M&M were invisible, so the people working on the tower did not see them or hear them. But all those people did see all the dirt, clay and bricks flying off their tower and then they saw the spiral pathway that suddenly appeared from the top of the tower to the bottom of the tower.
M&M and Gummy Bear ended up at the bottom of the tower extremely dizzy and they heard all the people around them yelling and cheering! The people were happy! They were happy because that roadway had suddenly appeared on their tower. The people were saying, “Now we have a great path from the bottom to the top of our tower, now we can carry more bricks up to the top of the tower and make the tower even higher!” The people also said, “Now we can make the tower so high that we will be able to get up to heaven where God is. We will become as great as God! Maybe we will even become greater than God!”
M&M said, “This is terrible! I remember reading about this story in the Bible. This tower is called the Tower of Babel, and these wicked people are so proud that they think that they can build a tower so high that they can become like God., and we helped them by making that pathway up to the top of the tower!”
Gummy Bear said, “We have got to stop them! We can use the bright pink tractor! Let’s find a big strong rope and tie it to the tower and to the bright pink tractor, then we can use the bright pink tractor to pull the tower over and stop theses people from doing this foolish thing.”
M&M said, “Wait a minute, I do not think our bright pink tractor is strong enough to pull this tower over! Even if we could pull the tower over, it would fall right on top of us, and that would hurt, and it might even dent the bright pink tractor.”
Gummy Bear said, “You are probably right, but something needs to be done! Do you remember from the Bible story what happens, maybe there is something that we can do.”
M&M thought hard, but he could not clearly remember the rest of the story from the Bible. Finally, he said, “I cannot remember the rest of the story.”
Gummy Bear said, “When we landed here, remember all that alphabet soup that came out of the bright pink tractor’s smokestack? Maybe that is some kind of clue. We could use the letters in the soup to spell words. Maybe the clue is found in words.”
Just then a man at the top of the tower yelled down to his friend. He was trying to ask for more bricks, but his words came out in Spanish! His friend tried to answer him, but his words came out in German. Another person began talking in Bohemian, and others began talking in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, Japanese, Chinese, Native American Indian, Russian, and African languages. There were even a lot of languages that M&M and Gummy Bear had never even heard of!
M&M said, “Now I remember the rest of the Bible story! It is all about words, the alphabet soup was a clue! When these wicked people became proud and tried to build a tower to reach to heaven, God came and made them all speak in different languages! They could not understand each other and could not work together anymore! We do not have to do anything to stop these people from building this tower! God stopped them from building the tower! God is completely in control.
All the people were completely freaked out by all the strange languages that everyone was speaking. They all ran around for awhile looking for someone that spoke the same language that they did. After they found a few other people that spoke their language, they formed a group and moved away from the people they could not understand. In a little while, M&M and Gummy Bear were the only ones left at the tower. All the groups of people had left. God had solved the tower problem because He is always in control!
Gummy Bear said, “That was an awesome adventure! We got to see God at work, and we got to see where all the languages started. Let’s have a bowl of alphabet soup!” Gummy Bear reached down to pick up a spoon, but he slipped on some soup and sat down right on that bright red button on the bright pink tractor. There was a noise like a strong wind, the bright pink tractor began spinning in circles, smoke and steam surrounded them and…..
What Gummy Bear, M&M and you can learn from this story:
The story of the Tower of Babel is found in the Bible in Genesis 11:1-9.
God is always in control! This Bible story shows that even when evil and wicked people make plans, God only lets them go so far, and then He jumps in and makes things go according to the plans He has made.
In the Bible in Proverbs 14:12 it says:
There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.
In the Bible in Proverbs 16:9 it says:
We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.
The same is true for believers. Believers have God in their life and want to do what pleases God, but every believer has a sin nature, and they will have to struggle with that sin nature while they are in this world, but God helps the believer and gives them the power to live for Him!
In the Bible in Philippians 2:13 it says:
For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases Him.
God is good, and all his plans for believers are for their ultimate good!
In the Bible in Jeremiah 29:11 it says:
“For I know the plans I have for you”, says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
We do not need to fear the future! God is in control!