Ecclesiastes 5:10–20 | There was a day where you didn’t get something new
until the last one was broken? I know, I know, it sounds crazy but it’s
true. You didn’t wait in line for a new phone while holding a perfectly
good phone. You didn’t buy a new computer until, well, the one you
currently had couldn’t even turn on anymore. But this is a way of the
past. Welcome to the upgrade culture. And while there are many blessings of
constant improvement and upgrades, what if we live life in a constant
upgrade way? I argue it breeds deep discontentment. In this last week of
Ecclesiastes we look at the blessing of accepting the lot in life to which
God has assigned us. It doesn’t mean we can’t long, and yearn, and strive,
but it does mean that instead of constantly focusing on what we don’t have,
we live with a peaceful thankfulness for what we do. So, we set out to be
free from the tyranny of always being after new and bigger and better and
bolder and different and instead seek to heed what Solomon has to say about
the joy to be found in what God has entrusted to us right now.