From the beginning of time

"Now the whole world had one language and a common speech...Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.' But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, 'If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them…'"
We know the story from here, right? God mixes up their language so they can no longer effectively communicate, thus causing them to scatter around the world like he’d originally instructed them to do. God tips his hat to the teamwork and vibrant display of communication, and then throws a monkey wrench in the works. Their communication was pristine; they were working together, working hard, and meeting their declared objective. Why, then, does God confuse their languages? Because what they were doing was outside of the plan God had laid out for them . I digress. God values communication. He values our communication with each other and his own communication with us. Since the beginning of time God has made effort to walk and talk with us, the crown of his creation. In the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve made that fateful mistake, how did God find them? Genesis 3:8 says, “Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.” Close your eyes and picture it for a moment, the intimate love portrayed by the same God who controls the lightning and hung the stars. They knew the sound of his footsteps in the garden. Think about the relationship that must have existed in this place that they knew the sound of God walking physically through the garden. It is an amazing thing, and they were hiding from him, hiding because of sin. Just think for a minute about Jesus. Why did God send him to die? God cannot be in the presence of sin. When we sin we are separated from God. Romans 6:23a says, “For the wages of sin is death…” That means that there had to be blood to cover the sins so we could commune with God. God sacrificed his own son to pay the price for our sins so he could talk with us. The truth is this; God doesn’t just love us, he really, really likes us.
Communication is first displayed in the beginning of time, between God and the sinners in the Garden. Again the importance of communication in society is presented with the story of the tower the people built at Babel. People thrive on communication. It is what links us to each other. It is what connects us to our God.