🏆 "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.
God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart, though no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end...
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. That light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can not overcome it. To all who receive him, to those who trust in his name, he gives the right to become children of God. From his fullness we have all received grace upon grace. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
Jesus testified: “God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever puts their trust in him will not perish but have eternal life… I have come that you may have life, and have it to the full. I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart – I have overcome the world!”
And so we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him; be assured that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 John 1:1,4,5,12,16 Romans 3:23-24 John 3:16, 10:10, 16:33 Romans 8:28, 38-39