Ecclesiastes 1:2-9
“2 Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3 What do people gain from all the toil at which they toil under the sun? 4 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hurries to the place where it rises. 6 The wind blows to the south, and goes around to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. 7 All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they continue to flow. 8 All things are wearisome; more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, or the ear filled with hearing. 9 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.”
Sometimes life seems as if it repeats itself; that we are caught on some sort of giant , never ending merry-go-round. We get up in the morning. We eat breakfast. We go to work. We eat lunch. We leave work. We go home. We eat dinner. We watch TV. We go to bed. And we get up the next day and do it all over again.
The difference for Christians is that we do all these things with Christ and the Holy Spirit of God. We get up with Christ. We eat with Christ. We work with Christ. We travel each day with Christ. The sun rises and sets each day with Christ.
And for everyone who is in Christ, the Holy Spirit is creating in us a new creation.
No day is the same with Christ.
Each day is a new day in the love of Christ.
May the love of Christ be with you,
Rev. Eric Lanier (Retired)