August 1, 2023 - Good Morning! It's Tuesday, August 1.
Here's the kind of fact that always makes me chuckle. "On this day, in 1774, scientist Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen ". So, what was everybody doing before Sir Joseph made his "discovery"? Stumbling around gasping for air?
Here's another - "In 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America". That bulletin must have been startling news to the 50 million people who already lived here when Chris arrived!
Ecclesiastes 1:9 tells us "there is nothing new under the sun". And yet human beings keep right on searching for "new". The new diet, the new secret of success, the new way to happiness. Today, instead, we focus our minds on the old, the ancient. Today we talk of origins, of foundations, of beginnings.
These words are the first words of the Gospel of John. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made, without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind."
And that's still new. And that's still news.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
Bro. David
dmathis@fbccenter.org
