Eternity In Our Hearts

He has put eternity in their hearts. - Ecclesiastes 3:11


I once came across a scene of beauty outside Anchorage, Alaska. Against a slate-gray sky, the water of an ocean inlet had a slight greenish cast, interrupted by small whitecaps. Soon I saw these were not whitecaps at all but whales - silvery white bueluga whales in a pod feeding no more than 50 feet offshore. I stood with other onlookers, listening to the rhythmic motion of the sea, following the graceful, ghostly crescents of surfacing whales. The crowd was hushed, even reverent. For just a moment, nothing else mattered.

The author of Ecclesiastes would have understood the crowd's response. He sees with dazzling clarity the beauty in the created world and that God "has put eternity in their hearts" (3:11). Such an elegant phrase applies to much in human experience. Surely in hints at a religious instinct. Our hearts perceive eternity in ways other than the religious.

Ecclesiastes presents both seides of life on this planet: the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy. God's tantalizing world is too big for us. Unless we acknowledge our limits and subject ourselves to God's rule, unless we trust the Giver of all good gufts, we will end up in despair. - Philip Yancey


Amid the measured music
What watchful ear can hear
God's voice admist the garden?
Yet hush! for He is here! - Charles

To make the most of today, keep eternity in mind.

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Ecclesiastes 3:9-17

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors? I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. Ha has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end. I

know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God. I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away. Moreover I saw under the Sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

I said in my heart, "God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."

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We can easily accept Jesus as our personal Saviour... I think is because of this... "Eternity in Our Heart"...