TAPE

What we wrap around our packages of thought. The form of belief used to keep our lives feeling as if they are flowing and functional.

Course tape never lasts. Oh it can bond for a while, but time can make it brittle and fail to keep working.

I remember when we had to keep some items in storage for a very long time. Some of the boxes were sealed with tape.

However in time the tape got dried out and barely worked. If you touched it then it could easily break.

And so can be our thinking if we are holding it together by some means other than truth. Which the mind can so easily do.

When we live by such methods it always brings problems. Oh maybe for while things hold together, but sooner or later they fall apart.

All based naturally upon the whole aspect of us somehow being able to control life. Just put whatever you can get to work right in a box and store it away.

That is not a way to be sure you ever end up with solving problems. It does create a great deal of storage though.

But eventually that runs out. Then all the stuff you can't control becomes a form of litter. And that makes life a problem.

Because you are always finding it cluttering your head. Hardly a way to make life improve.

Now the bad problem is when we keep trying to tape up the same types of failed trophies. All those crack badges from the times we thought of victory, but got something less.

Without the Lord's tape dispenser all we will ever have is something other than the truth. We will never reach the point where our boxes are sealed for the right reasons.

Happens so often in life. And we all know that will continue when we don't let God's spirit help us seal what is meant to be sealed.

Such as forgiven sins. Oh how those can come back to haunt. And we can try to put some tape of excuse on them.

But it never holds. Only God's grace can truly endure. We know that we are not going to be perfect.

Just accepting it can be the hardest tape of all to use.