Why can`t Jill remember 4 simple signs

ot I think the reason i thought about it like that jules is that i have been thinking about choices and signs lately and i listened to a mws cd that has a song called signs on it

back on topic she is only human and we do forget things but somtimes its just a simple matter of keeping our focus
 
KathrynJanewayChakotay said:
God places signs in front of us all the time but somtimes we don't see them or are blinded from them cause of distraction one of Satan's biggest tools Why do you think most of us close our eyes during worship and prayer at least i do to be alone with just me and God. So nothing distracts me from what God does for me and wants to do for me during worship and prayer: During a concert this past sat the lights and pyrotechnics's were going on the loud music but i still closed my eyes and worshiped in a crowd of over 1000 people Jill was distracted by the lady of the green kirtle and focusing on hunger and thirst and tiredness that she missed the signs.
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True. But if she'd done what she was told and practised them every day, at the same time of day, she would have had a much better shot at remembering despite distractions. If you build good habits and work on maintaining them, they will serve you well (says Mal, a walking mess of bad habits).
 
I think the signs represent what we as humans are suppose to follow all our lives. The journey (I think) represents our life, and the signs represent like, the most important commandmends. But its HARD! It's hard for us to follow all of the rules, it's hard to never be tempted. It's easy to forget, and to go with with the flow. I dunno, I think that's what it means.
 
I think Lewis was making an important point about obedience and sin. If we understand the four signs to be like God's law for our lives (as many have pointed out), then the most common error we make is not outright rebellion. At no time did Jill stand up and say, "nuts to these signs - I'm going to do other things." She intended to follow them - but she let herself get distracted. She let lesser matters distract her from remembering and following them, despite Aslan's explicit warning that 1) they would prove difficult to remember, and 2) they would not look like she expected them to look when she came across them (which turned out to be true in all cases). She let everyday concerns crowd out remembering and obeying.

This is very similar to Jesus' warning in the parable of the sower in Mark 4. Recall the seed that fell among thorns, which grew up around the seed as it sprouted, choking it and making it unfruitful. Jesus explained this as His followers who became distracted by "the worries of the world, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desire for other things." They were choked into unfruitfulness.

If we look at the sins we commit, it is very rare that they are outright rebellion. Far more commonly, we simply can't bother to be obedient, or are busy about lesser things, or are frightened. Just like Jill and the signs, we let smaller matters distract us, and before we know it, we're disobeying.

Having said that, I don't think Lewis deliberately intended to say that. I think he just wrote the story as his imagination "saw" it, and that lesson was embedded in it.
 
about the whole forgetting signs thing, when u really want to remember something sometimes u just forget it, or when you re llooking for something ans its place is so obvious u dont go at that place, u go to places hard to find !! its the human being :rolleyes:
 
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