Saturday, June 07, 2014

Nothing New Under the Sun

There are a few biblical verses I like very much and here is one of them.

 “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there’s nothing new under the sun.” (Eccl 1:9)

It is so true that all the things done by human are not brand new. History keeps repeating; words restated; stories retold; ideas reaffirmed; the same human errors appeared again and again. For mankind, our creativity is limited. Scientists can clone, making new lives, but they cannot create soul.

However, in God, there are new things called “Miracles”. What is a miracle? It’s an extraordinary thing that people have never heard of and are incapable of doing. Try to imagine in the days of Moses. The ten plagues, the split of the Red Sea, the falling of manna and quails, which one of them we can ever do or has ever been done before?  These are new things.

Nevertheless, we must be grateful as we can participate in those “new things” that God is still doing. Say the salvation of a soul for an example. The process itself is new and unpredictable. No one can predict when a person will convert and no one can do anything to make another person surrender his/her life to Jesus Christ. This is a new thing. The conversion of a man’s life through Jesus Christ is also a new thing as people change after receiving Jesus Christ. We can see a lot of testimonials of drug/ alcohol/ sex addicts who changed their behavior completely after they surrendered their life to the Lord.


Thanks the Lord that we can be part of the new things through our faith in Him. 

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