Eternity in their Hearts
I was looking at some pictures of my children the other day, pictures of them when they were much younger. My how time flies! How quickly they grow up! It is difficult to avoid a mix of emotions. Joy for the many good times past, but at the same time sadness that the joy of their presence with me is fleeting. Some of you parents have already outlived the joy of your children’s younger years and perhaps you know all too well this melancholy feeling.
Have you ever wondered why the tendency among us humans for nostalgia? The answer is that we’re ultimately made for something more than the temporal pleasures of this life. If we are honest, the best this life can do is leave us with a longing for more, a sad suspicion that there is a happiness somewhere, some place, that doesn’t have a shadow side. The writer of the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes put it this way: “[God] has…set eternity in their hearts….”
We were made for something more than the mere pleasures of this world. We were made for the pleasure of God—a pleasure that does not grow up and move away.
Something to think about from “The Kingdom Perspective”.
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.
~Ecclesiates 3:11 ESV
