Ecclesiastes 1

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 modern humans admit.
The thing that has been—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, so that whatever has been, shall again be, vs 9.
That is new! a phrase we hear often, what is?
It may seem new to you because you’ve either haven’t seen it or heard of it, it’s just new to you says vs 10.
The phrase “under the sun” is used twenty-nine times in Ecclesiastes but 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 the end, Solomon writes this: “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 (hidden by and from man), / whether it is good or evil” in Ecclesiastes 12:13–14.
The reason some things are thought to be new is that man has found ways to perfect old things and market them properly and successfully as new.
Has anything ever changed in life? Communication or just the methods and speed? Illness, or just the diagnostics and treatment? Does deception change, or just the form, has the social financial systems ever changed? Relationships, Politics, Sin? None of these things will ever change, they only get recycled and renamed. There’s nothing new there!
We face situations we’d like to think is unique to us individually to have the privilege to say to people that they don’t understand what we’re going through, hoping it will make us feel special, not according to Matthew 5:45 and Ecclesiastes 9:11. Circumstances and challenges are universal to everyone, it 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.
There is nothing new there!
Nothing natural or physically new under the sun! Everything is the same generation after generation.
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 say Ecclesiastes 12:13 because He has the last word! There is nothing new there but in God.
Shalom