The earth keeps on going around the sun, and here we are, still in the middle of COVID and other apparent crises. So what?

Solomon said in Ecclesiastes that it’s all meaningless:

⁴ One generation passes away, and another generation comes; But the earth abides forever.
⁵  The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it arose...

⁹  That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1.4, 5, 9, NKJV)

But Solomon wasn’t quite right. (And this has nothing to do with inspired scriptures which accurately records Solomon’s musings.) There are new things:

Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? (Isaiah 43.19, NKJV)

And at this time of year, we celebrate one of them: the coming of Jesus into the world to begin to set things right.

But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (Galatians 4.4 – 7, NKJV)

So no matter what happens in 2022, let’s live as God’s children, children of light!

For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true)… (Ephesians 5.8, 9, ESV)