"There Is Nothing New Under The Sun"

With less than a week into the New Year - 2018, the only difference this writer sees in 2018 versus 2017, is simply that the calendar year has changed. Other than that, we're seeing the same murder, mayhem, and madness we saw last year; the same greed (see here and here); the same hate (see here); the same prejudice between races (see here and here); the same continuous infantile wrangling in Congress (like a bunch of selfish, spoiled rotten kids on a school playground, not getting their way).

The wise man Solomon was indeed correct when he stated in Ecclesiastes 1:9 (see commentary); cf Ecclesiastes 3:15 NLT: "History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new." Or as the New King James version states: "There is nothing new under the sun."

Question: Doesn't mankind ever learn anything from history? (Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10:1-12). Obviously not, for the same grievous mistakes are being made over and over again ending with the same results. Folks, this is sheer insanity.

Mankind has not changed one iota since Adam and Eve in the Garden. He's still the same rebellious and disobedient being he's always been (Romans 3:9-10,23 NKJV), thinking that the world revolves around him .... it doesn't (see here).

Beloved, when mankind gets right (with God), our world will be right (see here). Only then can we truly sing along with the heavenly host, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men" (Luke 2:13-14 KJV; cf. Isaiah 57:19; Romans 5:1; Ephesians 2:17; Colossians 1:20).

Only then can we truly experience a "Happy New Year" in 2018.

---Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets