Bible Story Lessons

After the Great Flood, all the people spoke the same language and could talk to one another every day.  One day they shouted, "Let's build a big city, and a great tower so high it will reach right up to Heaven!   This will make a great name for us!"

Yes, these people thought they were very clever and wanted to be like God.  They planned to make a tower that would last forever, and so they learnt how to make bricks, and how to cement the bricks together with tar.

"Come," they cried, "Make the tower strong and high!"  Every day they watched the tower grow taller and taller.  It became so tall that the foreman at the top looked tiny and you could hardly hear his voice shouting, "We need lots more bricks and cement!"

But God was not pleased to see the people building this big tower.  He didn't want them staying in one place where they could do whatever they wanted, as He knew this would make them very proud.  God wanted them to live in all the countries of the world and fill them with people.

God also had a plan.  Do you know what He did?  He made all the people speak in different languages!  Now they couldn't understand one another at all!

Make up a language of your own and speak to the person next to you.   Did you understand what they said?

No, everybody was confused, so those people started to move away.   Some went in one direction, and some in another.  They settled in different countries and built houses and lived there.  And that's why there are so many languages in the world today.  But they never again tried to build a tower to Heaven!

Pride is when you think you are better than someone else.  What about when you disobeyed your Mommy or Daddy or weren't nice to someone?   You were only thinking about yourself and didn't care how the other person felt.  And that is pride.  God hates pride, because when you think you are better than others, you don't need God and can do everything better on your own!

But you do need God and He wants you to trust and depend on Him, and always ask Him for help.  Let's ask God to help you be kind to other people and always do the right things.  And then you will please God, and your parents, friends and other people!

God bless.