Verse of the Day 3/6

Verse of the Day 3/6

Ecclesiastes 3:11   He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.  English Standard Version (ESV)

Shortly after the passage in Ecclesiastes 3 where Solomon writes that for everything "there is a time and a season" we come to today's verse where he states that God has put "eternity into mans heart".  Everyone thinks of eternity.  They hope, they dream, perhaps they fear eternity, especially if they don't know God.  It is a mechanism that God has put into our hearts, to want to know, to find answers.

 

Saint Augustine captured this thought when he wrote,  "God has created us for Himself, and our hearts will remain restless until we find our rest in Him."  What is the condition of your heart today, is it restless or have you found rest?  It is a rest that once found, can be with us through the times and seasons of our lives.

 

People through the ages have been caught up with themselves, some, for a lifetime.  When they come to the end of their lives they find themselves empty, realizing that there has to be more to this life.  John Piper writes, "The self was never designed to satisfy itself.  It can never be sufficient.  We are but in the image of God, not God himself.  We are shadows and echoes.  So there will always be an emptiness in the soul that struggles to be satisfied with the resources of self."

 

If your heart is restless today, may you find rest in Him and may it be with you through the seasons, through the years and lasting through eternity.

 

Blessings,
Mike
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Ecclesiastes 3:10-12  Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹⁰ I have seen the painful labor and exertion and miserable business which God has given to the sons of men with which to exercise and busy themselves.

¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

¹² I know that there is nothing better for them than to be glad and to get and do good as long as they live;