In the New Year, God Is Doing Something Old

Every New Year’s, many people turn into Athenians.

“For all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing else, but either telling or hearing something new” (Acts 17:21).

Everyone seems to be looking for a new word. What is God saying? What is the newest thing God is doing? Who has had a vision? What is prophet so and so saying? It seems to be the trend every New Year’s. And this leads to all kinds of click-bait articles to draw you into a sensational word.

Although I believe in instilling fresh hope in people, and I certainly believe in genuine visions and prophecies to alert us and inspire us, especially as we head into a new year, we must also exercise caution to remember that there is nothing new under the sun (Eccl. 1:9). Our problem is that in looking and insisting on something new we forget the old and the sure paths of the Lord.