Contemplative Bible Reading

Ecclesiastes 1:9 (New Living Translation)

9 History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.

Nowadays, I read of “the end of history” and “being on the right side of history.” The Old Testament old book of Ecclesiastes, however, provides a different history of history. Under the sun, here on earth when people forget about God who is above, history repeats itself. We don’t learn from history; we just go around and around.

But wait, that must no longer be true. We, us folks on earth, are so much smarter than those folks who preceded us. We understand all this. We can stop the repeatedly repeating of repeatable mistakes. Huh?

Naw. Just us folks here. Just something we do. We have to make our own mistakes or something like that. Avoid the mistakes or others? You see, those others didn’t know how to skirt the edges of things and play with fire without being burned. I can do those risky things without consequences. I am just smart enough to do that.

Naw. Just us folks here. Just something we do. Please God, help me in m unbelief.