There
is
Nothing
New
Under
the
Sun!
What is the meaning of life?
In the second century an old man asked St. Justin, "What
are you looking for?"
St. Justin replied with the famous question, "What is
the meaning of life?"
The old man told him, "Seek Christianity."
Science can never tell us why we are here, but Scripture
has an answer...
What does man gain by all the toil at which
he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but
the earth remains for ever. The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens
to the place where it rises. The wind blows to the south, and goes round
to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind
returns. All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place
where the streams flow, there they flow again. All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear
filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and what has been done
is what will be done; and 'there is nothing new under the sun'.
Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"?
It has been already, in the ages before us. There is no remembrance of
former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to
happen among those who come after. I have seen everything that is done
under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. What
is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.
Ecclesiastes 1:3-15.
All things have their season, and in their times all
things pass under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which has been planted.
A time to kill, and a time to heal.
A time to destroy and a time to build.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh.
A time to mourn and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather.
A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
A time to get, and a time to lose.
A time to keep, and a time to cast away.
A time to rend, and a time to sew.
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.
A time of love, and a time of hatred.
A time of war, and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
GOD has written a hunger for Himself
in our hearts and nothing can ever satisfy that hunger except GOD Himself.
That is the true meaning of life.
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