After the flood there were only eight people left in the whole world, Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives.  Soon, children were born into these families.  One of Noah's sons was called Ham, and one of his children was called Cush, and Cush eventually had a boy called Nimrod.

Noah was the great-grandfather of Nimrod, who became a very expert hunter.  Many people thought Nimrod was a wonderful person because he was so brave and could hunt wild animals.  And so they thought it would be good if he could be their king and rule over them.

In those days lon ago, all the people spoke the same language and could understand one another.  They decided to work together and build a big city, and also a great tower.  They planned to build that tower so high into the sky that it would reach to Heaven.  This would make a great name for themselves!  The Bible tells us that the people thought the high tower would keep them all together and so that none would get lost.

They wanted the tower to be very strong, so they learned how to make bricks, and cemented these bricks together with tar.  Their building was probably very similar to the way we cement bricks together today when we want to build a house.

But God was not pleased to see the people building such a big tower.   He did not want all the people to stay in one place where they could plan to do what ever they liked.  God knew that this would make them very proud, and God hates pride.  God desired them to live in various other parts of the earth.  And so you know what God did?  God made them speak all sorts of languages!

Instead of talking together in one language and making plans to build that tower higher and higher, they just couldn't understand one another at all!  And so they started to move away.  Some went in one direction, and some in another.  Probably a few could talk and understand each other, and these went away together in a group, while another group who spoke a different language went in another direction.

And that's why there are so many languages in the world today.  And it all started because people were proud and wanted to be better than anyone else!  Pride is when you think you are better than someone else.  God hates pride and when we think we are better than others, we start to think that we don't need God, and that we can do things better on our own!

But, we always need God.  He wants us to trust and depend on Him and ask Him for help.  If you think that you know it all, then you are going your own way and turning away from God.  What about when you disobeyed your parents or weren't nice to someone?  At that moment you only were thinking about yourself and didn't care how the other person felt.  And that is pride.

Let's ask God for His help so that we will be kind to other people and do the right things.  We will then please God, our parents, other people and our friends.

God bless.