Today those who live in Christ can read the beginnings of their relationship with the Living God. We have little knowledge of the times after  Adam and Eve except for Noah's acceptance of God's warning,  but with Abraham begins the record of God's revelation to first his favoured nation and ultimately with the redeeming work of Jesus. None of us can hold that in our minds. The desert nations relied on their memories with which they held their genealogies. The scribes became valued as a class because their records became our sacred books recording the deeds of of prophets and of kings and God's dealings with them

 Today we have the fleeting yet permanent records of our machines. They are even used to create wealth out of capacity to produce unbreakable codes of numbers.  We have so much to occupy us today that we are convinced that that we are beginning to create a world that has no need of God.  We all must die and our blockchains will disintegrate. We will be judged by the Judge with whom there is absolute Wisdom Truth  and Justice and with whom there is no shadow of deceit. No matter what our successes or failures of today, we will all die and then we will know truth for we shall see God as he is Face to Face.

Dear Lord save me from the dangers of hypocrisy and let what I pray come solely from you, returning myself to your loving care. I ask this in the name of the Father, Son and holy Ghost.