Did you ever feel like you are living the movie Groundhog Day? You awake to discover you keep repeating the same failures over and over. Every day is Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. In the movie, the main character comes the realization that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.
NOTHING NEW ON EARTH
Our world is Groundhog Day in the flesh. The writer of Ecclesiastes accurately observes: What exists now is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing truly new on earth.
CREATION IS DOOMED
God’s lovely, perfect, incredible creation became doomed. Through Adam’s decision in the Garden, he walked away from the Creator God. Sin rears its ugly head in every individual and generation since the Garden. There is nothing truly new on earth regarding our behavior as people.
A DIM MEMORY OF THE BEAUTY
We are but a dim memory of the beauty of who we were created to be. The sin process repeats over and over every day of our lives. Ecclesiastes says, “Is there anything about which someone can say, ‘Look at this! Is it new’? It was already done long ago, before our time.”
BAND-AIDS DON’T WORK
I keep trying the same and band-aids for my sin problem. Along with the vast majority of people, I have collective amnesia when I think that just trying harder to be “nice people” changes people internally. The band-aid solution is futile. People cannot permanently be changed without the Creator.
THE SOLUTION
God provides the solution to breaking the cycle. Jesus’ death and resurrection offer reconciliation with God and new lives. By handing every inch and scrap of one’s life over to Jesus, the Creator makes all things new. Hope exists! All He is asking is that we give up the reins and let Him lead. Run to the Savior! “Vanity of vanities! All [that is done without God’s guidance] is vanity [futile, meaningless—a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes, merely chasing the wind].” (Ecclesiastes 1:2)
GENUINE HOPE!
There is hope! Scripture gives hope for a fresh beginning. Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life]. (II Corinthians 5:17) Tired from chasing failure over and over again? Join me; come to the Cycle-Breaker: Jesus Christ.