Ecclesiastes 1

"Everything is wearisome beyond description. No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are not content.

History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. Sometimes people say, “Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new. We don’t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now."
-Ecclesiastes 1:8-11

Scripture is not just a club to beat people with.
It's history is a guide, a tool to remind us of who we are, where we have been and where we have the potential of going.

Nothing is new under the sun, every sin and every good thing have been seen once and will be seen again.

Jesus is never caught off guard by our stupidity, our desperate need for Him and our never ending need to just be loved.

Humanity means living, it means dirtiness, it means failure, it means sin, it means pain, it means broken relationships...but it also means hope.

God spoke us into being with the full knowledge of knowing how screwed up I would be. My every sin, my every weakness, my frail heart, my aching body and my mind so prone to wonder.

My hypocrisy has never known bounds and so at least God is never caught off guard and the return to grace, the love, the beauty, the forgiveness...it's not cheap grace, it is grace bought by the blood of Christ and salvation worked out in fear and trembling...pain, so much pain...but grace where my broken nature and sin reigned.

There is always a choice.
I can choose to live or choose to die.
It's a day to day life, a day to day choice...here, there, everywhere...everywhere.