by Dona Hake
Make no mistake…whatever God does, He has a plan and a purpose for it. When God created man, He not only formed him and breathed life into him, He created a place in man’s heart in which His life would fit. He created man with a need for his Creator. I can remember two whole years of my life as a teenager in which every night I prayed a particular prayer before I went to sleep. These were the two years before I gave my heart to Jesus Christ. My heart was struggling against the living God. I had two friends diligently praying for my salvation and I was so stubborn. Every night for those two years before I closed my eyes I would say to God, “There has to be more to this life than this.” I know now that my heart was implanted with a need for Him and He was the only one that could fulfill that need. Because of prayer going forth for me, my heart was experiencing a lost and lacking feeling because of my need for the Living God. My heart continued to grow curious and look for answers. My friends, I exhort you to never grow weary in praying for those that look hopeless for I can remember how stubborn I was. I thank God for those that did not give up and continued to pray for me!
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.”
“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.”
God has planted eternity in every heart and mind that has ever lived. But remember this…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.
This is how the New Life Version of Ecclesiastes 3:11 is translated:
“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.” All of God’s ways and thoughts are above and beyond our comprehending, and the beauty of this fact is that this makes God who He is! He is beyond us figuring Him out, He is awesome and we should not try to comprehend His 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 askthat 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!