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GOD’S TWEETS Wenceslao Calvo (*)
Now that it is so common to tweet, we should remember the old saying that there is nothing new under the sun. Although current generations boast about having come up withnew things, the truth is that many of them are but remakes. Many centuries ago, when people of the time
thought that there had come up with things that never existed before, someone wrote, “Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.” (Ecclesiastes 1:10) In this statement, two things stand out: first, the humbleness in recognizing that new things are not necessarily superior to past things; and second, the wisdom in realizing that old things can be as valuable as new things. As regards tweets, we may think we are dealing with a totally unprecedented phenomenon in human history. Some may believe that these 280-character messages that fill no more than three lines on an A4 sheet are an absolute innovation. Nothing could be further from the truth. MISSIONARY MOVEMENT 16 WORLDWIDE Americas • Europe • Oceania • Africa • Asia
Tweets have existed for several thousand years, with cultures using them to spread their thinking. And that is why, nowadays, we have collections of short sayings coming from Mesopotamia and Egypt, in which they even dealt with different life aspects. The idea was that people did not need to read large books to understand certain truths, so they summed up important thoughts in a few meaningful words. The Bible also has its own collection of tweets, which can be called God’s tweets, as He is their ultimate author.
