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A senior devil, Screwtape, is writing to his junior devil nephew, Wormwood, with advice on how to get Christians to turn away from the Enemy (God). Lewis captured the essence of this point in his book The Screwtape Letters.
What is new is not really new, and what feels new will soon feel old.Ĭ. Stop thinking that meaning and happiness and satisfaction reside in novelty. The very rhythms of the world are a pointer to what it means to be part of the created order as a human being. Things repeat themselves over and over and over again, and so it is time to learn that life has a repetitiveness built into it which we are not meant to try to escape. Look at the tides and the seasons and the patterns that God has stitched into the very fabric of creation. Think about the generations who lived before us. Stop playing “let’s pretend” and instead let history and the created world be our teachers. The Built-In Repetitiveness of LifeĮcclesiastes urges us to put this behind us once and for all and adopt a better way of thinking. The seasons and natural cycles of the world are content to come and go, but we sweat and toil to make believe that it will not be so with us. We spend our lives aligning our better selves with a different future that we envisage as more rewarding.Īnd in it all we are simply trying to make permanent what is not meant to be permanent (us), and by constant change we are trying to control what is not meant to be controlled (the world). We long for lives of permanence in a world of constant change, and we strive to achieve it.
We long for change in a world of permanent repetition, and we dream of how to interrupt it.
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Let’s pretend we can break the cycle of repetition and finally arrive in a world free from weariness. Let’s pretend that time is always on our side to do the things we want to do and become the people we want to be. Let’s pretend that if we get through this week’s pile of washing and dirty diapers and shopping lists and school runs and busy evenings, next week will be quieter. Let’s pretend that if we had more money, we would be satisfied. Let’s pretend that if we were married, or weren’t married, we would be content. Let’s pretend that if we end one relationship and start a new one, we won’t ever feel trapped. Let’s pretend that if we move to a new house, we’ll be happier and will never want to move again. Let’s pretend that if we change jobs, or emigrate to the sun, we won’t experience the humdrum tedium and ordinariness of life. Let’s pretend that if we get the promotion, or see our church grow, or bring up good children, we’ll feel significant and leave a lasting legacy behind us. But we avoid this reality by playing “let’s pretend.” Let’s Pretend We are not in control, and we will not live forever. To be human is to be a creature, and to be a creature is to be finite. Opening our eyes to this is a significant breakthrough. The reality is, we spend our lives trying to escape the constraints of our created condition. But, in fact, it’s highly significant when we stop and think about how much energy we devote to not accepting it. This point may seem so obvious as to be simplistic. Wise people simply accept that they are going to die. At the outset, Ecclesiastes 1:1–11 sketches a very basic point: accepting death is the first step in learning to live.
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