Beautiful Eternity

He [God] has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

The book of Ecclesiastes has thoughts and wisdom that I sometimes have trouble wrapping my mind around, but it also has certain verses that I can pluck out and cling to at certain times – and they’re exactly what I need to know.

Today’s verse is one of those for me. God made everything beautiful in its time – not my time or the world’s time, but in the time that God planned for it to be beautiful and perfect.

And I love the part about how God put eternity in our hearts. Isn’t that just a beautiful concept? God is eternal and wants us to be with Him – wants us to long to be with Him in eternity.

As happy as we might be or as perfect as things might seem, what we enjoy here on earth is barely a shadow of all the wonderful things God has for us in heaven someday. Of course, there’s also a flip side in life. As terrible or confusing or hard as things might seem, we can still hold to that same promise. Those things that hurt or that we don’t understand just help underscore the fact that God didn’t mean for us to spend eternity here. We’re travelers passing through, and someday we’ll look back and understand so much more than we do now.

That’s something I’m especially thankful for today.

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Also – be sure to come back on Wednesday, when I host my first guest blogger! Jodie Bailey will share about some things she’s learned lately in her writing journey. In the meantime, stop by Jodie’s website to learn a bit more about her and her writing.