I knew no more about what was going to come than Isaac did.

Proverbs 28:10

Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.

The one good thing about reruns is a known outcome.

This is somewhat true of the bible, that our outcome is known. So why would we read the bible every day if it is the same yesterday and today?

2 Corinthians 4:16

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Considering everything the outward has to endure in this world during these days, it is the inward that is renewed and that is not a rerun. We have to deal with the here and now without any true expectation of results. We sojourn in a land that is not our home. Our home, our true home is in Christ Jesus with God the Father.

Our physical bodies hurt and are subject to events not of our own making because of those who do not know or believe in God Almighty. Our sphere of influence is small given we serve our Lord as best we can with our limitations.

• Matthew 17:20
  He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
• Luke 17:6
  And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

Has anyone actually tried to use their faith to move a mountain or a tree? I doubt it because those of us who know by faith that the mountain is a very large stoney heart and the tree is a man that has been planted in the wrong place and needs to be replanted by the stream of living waters.

Not  all parables are labeled as parables. Metaphor or simile matters not in our ability by faith to extract meaning from God’s Word. Read the Word and what it has for you today has purpose and in that sense it is never a rerun.

Genesis 15:12

As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.

Abram was shown what was to befall his lineage. He knew what was coming. This telling was relayed to us after the dread had passed. We do not find any words between Abraham and Isaac warning his son of events that would come.

So what does this have to do with anything that is meaningful to us today?

Dread fell upon the world in the form of a pandemic. Panic set in and production shut down as people were told to shelter in place. What was the result of that pandemic?

As I think about these events, it is seen through my eyes, and just how it affected my norms and no one else’s. What I perceive is only one experience and cannot speak to everyone’s situation.

Television productions stopped and what I watched to keep myself entertained stopped. It was like being left with an unfinished book with no offer to return to publication for the ending of the tale. Thus began the endless series of reruns. Utter boredom set in because of seeing them over and over again.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

The wisdom of Solomon became ever more clear in how deep the Word of God sees into the depths of our humanity.

I immersed myself in the Word to find relief from my boredom.

What was my alternative, endless reruns or entering the ever expanding and darkening arena of the World Wide Web?

Eight years ago I began a journey of declaring my love of God and His Word on the WWW. Suddenly there was an explosion of interest in His Word as I discovered my hit counter climb in volume as others began seeking something better than the same old reruns.

I knew no more about what was going to come than Isaac did.

Proverbs 28:10

Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.