“Eternity In the Heart and Mind of Man”

 
 
god alone
 
by Dona Hake
 
 
 
Ecclesiastes 3:11 (AMP)
“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. We are born with the choice of whom we will look to to satisfy our every need. Within the heart of man is a longing that only God can satisfy yet man who chooses to fill his voids apart from Christ will never be fulfilled.  I can remember someone saying that there is a whole in every man’s heart that only God can fill.    Until one accepts Jesus Christ as Lord of their life, there will always be a yearning for more and an emptiness in the soul of that person.
 
 
 
 
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 fact is that this makes God who He is!   He is beyond us figuring Him out, nor should we try to comprehend His ways.    His ways and thoughts are beyond our ways.

 
 
 
Let us trust Him today with all of our hearts.    Let us also rejoice that because
we know Him, we can live in all of the beauty and abundance that He desires for us.
I praise God that He did plant eternity in every man’s heart and mind.   Lord, we ask
that You lead us in our actions and words that we would be a testimony to those around us that have not yet made that choice for You.     God, you have planted eternity within those hearts
that are still empty….oh that they would see their need for a Savior!