How many of us have tried to build a tower to heaven (Genesis 11:1-9)

How many of us have tried to build a tower to heaven? Ya it may sound corny, but really when you stop and think of it, how many of us have tried to build a tower to heaven to earn merit with God rather than welcome our saviour into our hearts and homes by faith. I know in my own life I have been guilty of trying to build a tower, one good deed brick at a time, but God doesn't want that, he wants to be invited in to work change in us. He wants to come down and be present in our lives? There is nothing we can do aside from opening our hearts to him to enhance the communication signal, to be closer to him. He just wants us surrendered to him.

Genesis 11:1-9 (http://www.biblegateway.com)

New International Version (NIV)

The Tower of Babel

11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. ² As people moved eastward,^[a] they found a plain in Shinar^[b] and settled there.

³ They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. ⁴ 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; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
⁵ But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. ⁶ 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. ⁷ Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
⁸ So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. ⁹ That is why it was called Babel^[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.