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. Ecclesiastes 3:11 – For us readers who are hoping Solomon will just look to the God we know he knows about, this is a positive verse. Solomon acknowledges there is a God and this God created all that there is. We see that Solomon even acknowledges that eternity, something beyond this life, is there for God put this eternal nature and eternal desire within man. Yet Solomon then says that while we have this eternal nature, we don’t fully understand it and can’t even find the fullness of understanding. What Solomon is saying is true, we have an eternal nature and we are called to know this eternal God, but in this life we are limited in what we can understand and find about eternity and this eternal God. The path then we are on is split, continue after trying to understand this eternal God as much as we can in this life, or give up even trying and just enjoy what this eternal life has to offer. Sadly we see the direction Solomon takes is the path of least resistance. He settles that while eternity is real, its unknowable like he wants to know it, so he would seek to “know” all there is in this world instead. This same split in the path is in front of each of us today. No, we will never in this life be able to fully understand the complexities of eternity nor our eternal God, and we could use that as our reasoning to not pursue the Lord. Or we can choose to know all that we can know in this life about God and find ourselves on a path of discovery that will last into eternity. Choose what you want to know. Do you what to know this world well or do you want to know Jesus well? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3388
Question To Ponder: Why would God not make Himself completely knowable to us?
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