Nothing New At All

" . . . 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 do no remember what happened in the past, and in the future generations,no one will remember what we are doing now" (Ecclesiastes 1:11 NLT).

While watching the video about the dark ages I thought about this verse. Indeed, all that the world is experiencing now were all experienced by the past generations. The starvation that kills many of the people in our generations now and the violent situations that some of the countries are experiencing right now are not new for in the dark ages there was great scarcity of food that led people to be cannibals and the blood flowed almost like a river on streets. I've also realized that the discontented feeling that they feel before is still true to us now even for the people thinks that they have everything they need. They would still find their heart with a missing link and that would be fill in only by the presence of Christ.

Looking back to my family, I can also say that I still can feel the fear within me. I am afraid that nothing new will happen in my life that I am bounded in making the same mistakes that my loved ones had committed. And be on their the same situations right now because of their unwise decisions.  I know about the curse that being passed on from generations to generations and I am afraid to be trapped and be imprisoned with these sin.

God has alarmed me with this possibility. And I am very much grateful to Him because it just shows how much He cares and loves me by not allowing me to remain ignorant with the trap that has been laid in front of me. I know that God's power is the answer for this curse to be broken and to never affect me anymore and my siblings. But  I also have to do my own part, to work along with God in declaring His victory over sin in my life. I have to continually surrender my life to Him, day by day, to inquire to Him with the every desire in my heart and to ask guidance from Him with every decision that I make concerning my life especially when it comes to choosing my lifetime partner. I want to be very careful as I can when it comes to having relationship with the opposite sex for I know that this decision would either lead me to follow the curse in my family line or to be different from them. I always ask and hope for a lifetime partner who is very much in love and faithful to our God, a man that prioritizes God always in every decisions of his life. That's the desire of my heart and I know that it would be pleasurable to Him to grant these desires of mine for it will bring glory to His name. I am really secured by the love of God and I know that He won't allow for me to be married to a person whom He cannot entrust me with. He is always giving His best to me and I am confident that my future lifetime partner is the best in His own eyes knowing that He will be entrusting His precious daughter to him.

Indeed what Solomon said that there is nothing new under the sun is also true to me. I have seen and testified people who have been changed by God and through His grace and faithfulness have redeemed them and rescued them from the curses of their family line.