A Close Walk With Jesus
Thursday, February 3
A Close Walk With Jesus
History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. Sometimes people say, “Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new. Ecclesiastes 1:9-10
Solomon was wiser than any of the kings who ruled in Jerusalem before him. He had greater wisdom and knowledge than any of them. He was a man who devoted himself to search for understanding and to explore by wisdom everything being done under heaven. So he left us some gems in the books of Ecclesiastes and Proverbs which are worth paying attention to. Such as today’s verses, Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 which says, “History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. Sometimes people say, “Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new.”
The picture Solomon is painting and that he wants his readers to grasp is the idea that there is more to life than grasping for something new. He is saying, “Learn from me, I was there, I had all a man could dream of. I was the best in my field. I achieved it all, but no sooner had I done that then I realized it’s all meaningless without the Lord.”
In life there is an emptiness, a vacuum that cannot be satisfied by what evolves under the sun. Vanity Solomon calls it, all vanity if not filled by God. It’s only in Jesus, the Son, that our cup runs over, but ‘under the sun’, or in the world, we only get a bottomless cup that can never be satisfied. No matter how high we go, or how low we go, or how hard we search, if it doesn’t lead to living a life worthy of the gospel, then you will get there and still feel empty.
Remember, it’s not how far we get, but how closely we walk with Jesus, the Son. No matter what we do ‘under the sun’, it cannot compare to eternity. Let’s not allow the meaninglessness of life to stop us from reaching eternity with ‘the Son’.