Fleating

God is pressing this in on me. We are a vapor and smoke in the wind. Here today and gone tomorrow. Even though we are a vapor God tempers that with his immense love for us and how valuable we are to him.

Are these contradictory statements? They may appear to be but I believe not. We can love things that are seen only for a short while. As well when the bible talks about how our life is fleating it talks about more how short our life is and how it can be spent on things that disapear or things of worth

I guess God is trying to tell me how easy it is to spend my time on fleating things and how often my mind goes to such things.

God teach us the difference between fleating and things of eternal worth.

Help us to know the difference (your true understanding)

Help us to change our ways to the valuable

Help us to listen to you

Help us to trust you with our fleating life

Help us to get a true understanding of our lives.

Authorities

C.S. Lewis in his book The Discarded Image makes a very interesting point. The medievals were all about authorities. They were very bookish and trusted and tried to understand the books that had been passed on to them and trusted them as authorities. We would point out that the books could be wrong which is true and they would agree in theory but would most often disagree.

He then points out the we put our trust in observation. He doesn't elaborate here but in other parts he talks about how we very often find what we are looking for. How much does it depend on the observer for what is observed? How much does the interpretation depend on the observer? By depending on observation what are we missing? Is this what future generations will say about us?

God help us to listen to you

God help us to trust in you

God speak your truth