Sunday, February 12, 2017

Ecclesiastes 1:7 says, All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.  Rivers have been emptying into the seas since the beginning of time, but the rivers still flow and the seas don't overflow.  We can believe that a cosmic accident caused this to continue, or we can believe this phenomenon is the result of an intelligent design.  We, as followers of Christ, have to acknowledge it as the creation of the only true God.  Verse eight says, All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.  Most things that we want reguire labor to achieve.  We often call everyday life the art race.  We are busy attempting to get the things we see or the things we hear about, but we are seldom satisfied very long once we have them.  We are not satisfied with just seeing and hearing about things, but feel we must have them.  It becomes a vicious cycle of vanity, or notingness.  If we are never satisfied with what we have, or even the things we do, then we are always wanting more, more, more.  Yet, nothing ever satisfies.  As followers of Christ, we need to learn to be thankful for what God blesses us with and realize that the things of this world are all temporary, but our relationship with God is everlasting.  If we are truly following God's will for our lives, we will not see life as a continual working to satisfy our senses.  Verse nine says, The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.  We are always hearing about something new, but the laws of nature never change.  We may feel that we are the smartest, most advanced people in the world, but so have many, many other generations that have gone before us.  God set the world, the universe, in motion, and no matter how smart we feel, it is still the same world and universe.  Even with all the technology of today, there really is nothing new under the sun.  We either accept that God created it all and placed us in the midst of it, or we deny Him and feel that we don't need God.  Whatever new that comes along, it is built from what God created and relies on His laws of the world.

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