Devotional for Sunday, August 28, 2016
“Eternity Was Planted In Our Hearts”
by Dona Hake
Ecclesiastes 3:11 (Amplified)
“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.”
I think this scripture is so awesome. I love how it tells us that God has planted eternity in every heart and mind that has ever lived. Within the heart of man is a longing that only God can satisfy yet man who chooses to fill his voids apart from looking to the Lord will never be fulfilled. I love how one man said it something like this…”Within the heart of every man and woman there is a hole that only God is able to fill.” God created us with a need and that need is for Him, and no one or nothing can fulfill that need as God can.
I like how the New Life Version translated Ecclesiastes 3:11:
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has put thoughts of the forever in man’s mind, yet man cannot understand the work God has done from the beginning to the end.”
I particularly want you to look at “man cannot understand the work God has done from the beginning to the end.” The beauty of this is that this is what makes God almighty in all that He does. He is beyond us figuring Him out, nor should we try to comprehend His ways. If He wants you to understand, He will…in His time and in the way He sees that you alone can comprehend that which you are desiring to understand. Let us as we submit our lives and wills to Him. We must simply trust Him. He has promised that as we trust He will lovingly care for every aspect of our lives.
Isaiah 58:11 (AMP)
“And the Lord shall guide you continually and satisfy you in drought and in dry places and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden
“And the Lord shall guide you continually and satisfy you in drought and in dry places and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden
and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.”
Let God show Himself strong in you when there is no strength to be found. Watch Him show you the water in the “dry lands” that you may have to walk through. It is not necessary to know how He does it for He alone is God, and all He wants is your trust! Lord we thank You that You have created us with a divinely implanted sense of purpose in which only You alone can satisfy. We thank You that You are showing us each day the plans and purposes for our lives and we trust You with all of our heart!