We live in a time of outrage and crisis fatigue. It’s easy to feel like the world is unraveling. But what if today’s chaos isn’t new at all?
In our final Biblical Wisdom for Flourishing devotional for July, Dr. Victor Counted reflects on a powerful line from Ecclesiastes 1:9:
“What has been will be again… there is nothing new under the sun.”
This is not pessimism. We see, in this text, a divine perspective for navigating modern history.
History has seen cycles of power, violence, and confusion before. From ancient empires to contemporary politics, the patterns repeat. But biblical wisdom doesn’t call us to panic. It calls us to discernment—the spiritual clarity to see what’s really happening beneath the noise, and the courage to respond differently.
In this week’s video, Dr. Counted unpacks:
Why historical memory is key to spiritual maturity
How discernment breaks cycles of reaction
What it means to flourish with wisdom in a world of repetition
When history repeats, the wise don’t just react, rather, they remember, listen, and walk in the truth of who they are and their purpose.
