NOTHING NEW HERE!

Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 NASB

What has been, it is what will be, And what has been done, it is what will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. [10] Is there anything of which one might say, “See this, it is new”? It has already existed for ages Which were before us. [11] There is no remembrance of the earlier things, And of the later things as well, which will occur, There will be no remembrance of them Among those who will come later still.


There is nothing new under the sun!

All the activity of a man during his lifetime gets lost in the grander scheme of things and will soon be forgotten according to vs 11. 

Even the devil has no new party tricks just recycled old tricks. 

Solomon wasn’t just expressing gloom here; he wants us to learn from his writings where possible, what he learned late in his life. 

If we wait for something new to excite and fill our lives, it will be a futile wait. 

Life is more boring than any modern man would ever care to admit. Everything in nature has its revolutions: summer and winter, heat and cold, rain and drought, seedtime and harvest, with the entire system of corruption and generation alternately succeeding each other. Whatever has been shall again be, as stated in verse nine.

“That’s new!” is a phrase we hear often. But what is new? It’s new because you either haven’t seen it or heard of it before, so it’s just new to you, says verse ten. The phrase “under the sun” is used twenty-nine times in Ecclesiastes and nowhere else in Scripture. Everything we see, hear, and do today has evolved from another generation—the difference may just be in the degree of intensity.

In Ecclesiastes 12:13–14, Solomon writes this in the end: “Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all humanity. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.”

The reason some things are thought to be new is that man has found ways to perfect old things, repackage them, and market them properly and successfully as new. Has anything ever changed in life? Has communication changed, or just the methods and speed? Illness, or just the diagnostics and treatment? Does deception change, or just the form? Have the social financial systems ever changed? Relationships, politics, sin? None of these things will ever change; they only get recycled, renamed, upgraded, and enhanced. There’s nothing new there!

We face situations we’d like to think are unique to us individually, so we can have the privilege to say to people that they don’t understand what we’re going through, hoping it will make us look unique and feel more special. But not according to Matthew 5:45 and Ecclesiastes 9:11. Circumstances and challenges are universal to everyone; they shouldn’t make us special because there’s nothing new there.

The love of God is the only thing that is constant in life; it never dies, according to Isaiah 40:8. While 1 Corinthians 13:13 declares that “There are three things that remain—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.” These cannot be manipulated, repackaged, upgraded, or renewed. They are based on God, and God alone. Everything else is subject to change but not new.

There is nothing new there! Nothing natural or physically new under the sun! Everything is the same generation after generation; they are only different in expression and intensity. But there is a God who rules over the sun! He makes life here tolerable and existence possible through Jesus Christ. If you are seeking a new thing, it’s not under the sun. Man is vain and continuously changing whilst labouring with anxiety, but only in God will you find meaning, peace, assurance, and adventure.

Fear God and keep his commandments, says Ecclesiastes 12:13, because He has the last word! There is nothing new there but in God.

PRAYER: Lord and Master of the Universe, thank you for being in control of all things that no man can do whatever you haven’t done. By your grace, all things remain the same. In Jesus’ name, amen.

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