Old

The bristlecone pines are a small group of pine trees … that are thought to reach an age far greater than that of any other single living organism known, up to nearly 5,000 years.

Yesterday I wrote “Not A New Thought.”  Has it dawned on you that none of mine are?  What I read was written thousands of years ago. The Preacher wrote:

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9 KJV)

Oh, I can hear the laughter now.  “What,” they say as they are reading this on a computer, iPad or smart phone.  “They sure didn’t have this when the Preacher wrote!”

True, but the universe is arguably a closed system:

The "Law of Conservation of Mass" states that "the mass of a closed system will remain constant over time. The law implies that mass cannot be created or destroyed, although it may be rearranged in space and changed into different types of particles."  Students are taught early on "If the number of atoms of each element remains the same, then the mass can never change in a chemical reaction. The total mass of the reactants must equal the total mass of the products. This observation that mass must remain constant in a chemical reaction as known as the law of conservation of mass."

Of course, I’m not proposing that the physical atoms of the iPad existed then therefore it is not new, but I am saying that forms of communication existed then, and the technology displays it in different ways today, but the words of the Preacher still apply.

One bristlecone pine has been dated up to 5,000 years old, an old tree before Christ was born, growing well before the Preacher wrote the words of Ecclesiastes. Yet all live today, the tree, Christ and the Preacher’s words.  Time is not relevant:

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (2 Peter 3:8 KJV)

One thing I can state for certain, I won’t be around here like this for the next thousand years, but I will live.  The only thing relevant about my time is whether or not I’ve accepted Jesus’ words:

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6 KJV)