“There’s nothing new to say on the subject. Don’t you still have the message of the earlier prophets from the time when Jerusalem was still a thriving, bustling city and the outlying countryside, the Negev and Shephelah, was populated? [This is the message that God gave Zechariah.] Well, the message hasn’t changed. (Zechariah 7:7-9 The Message)
Fear Not… Then Repeat
I have a four-foot length of pipe that fits nicely around the handle my pipe wrench. On those occasions that I need to loosen a particularly stuck bit of plumbing, I reach for my pipe. I have used that pipe for over forty years. It adds leverage and helps me loosen things.
Maybe new wrench-tech has been invented. Maybe new chemical, temperature, or magic ways to loosen pipes have come along.
But I do not think so.
Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.
Zechariah thought so. The reason we still use a Bible that is hundreds of years old, is that it is like my pipe. The Bible, old, reliable, and still true… is a Christian’s go to solution.
Do not be fooled into thinking that new philosophies are better. Do not be fooled into thinking that so-called advancing civilization needs advanced connections with God.
For Zechariah, God’s message was THE message, whether it was written in the time of King David’s time, or the terrible time of the exile. God is our only hope.
The old ways, described in old Scripture, are still our only hope.
Fear not, then repeat.