“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”
Yes, he is a God of beauty, isn’t He? The phrase “in its time” adds an interesting reminder. That is, God is sovereign. The beauty springs from His nature alone, and it does so according to His purposes. The what, when, how, and why all belong to Him, only Him.
And one of the chief beauties, perhaps the most beautiful of all, is this idea of and longing for “eternity” that he has set in our hearts. Eternity… not so much in the sense of forever, though that is true. Eternity, in the sense of a different dimension that we are born-again into, recreated into, redeemed into, when we place our faith in Christ, trusting him for the care of our hearts and souls.
Eternity… the Life-with-God dimension. Unfathomable, but good, and beautiful… C.S.Lewis offers an amazing insight here: If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.