Ecclesiastes 2 - Day 1060

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Scripture: Ecclesiastes 2:9

Commentary (workingpreacher.org): What has been is what will be,

and what has been done is what will be done;
there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 2:9)

Don’t you just feel that way sometimes? Maybe even a lot of the time? There is nothing new in this world; it’s always the same old thing, day after day after day. The same demands are placed on you day in and day out, at work, at home. The same conversations, the same arguments even, with co-workers, spouses, children. And children, at this point in the summer, endlessly repeat the same hot, sticky complaints of boredom. Nothing ever really gets finished; nothing is ever settled; nothing will ever be just right. And for what? Just, it sometimes seems, so that we can get up the next day and do it all again? What a waste of breath.

Application: Ecclesiastes 2:9 can easily drive a person to despair.  Thank God, that's just one perspective.  The author eventually points out that we can find contentment in Jesus, but why wait?

Prayer: Lord, You alone I long to worship...