This is a very famous chapter. It is hard to say anything new about it, but will say that the thing that stuck to me was verse 11
"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."
I can feel the tension and angst in the writer's pen. He knows there is something bigger and more beautiful than he can comprehend, but it is just out of reach. He is almost mad at God for allowing us to know that there is more, but not letting us see it.
I know this is a frustration with me. I want to "see" eternity. It is something I know is there...it is in my heart. But I just can't grasp it.
The writer ends up saying that ultimately we just have to accept it and find contentment in working then dying.
The writer refuses to believe that there is more because he can't see it or prove it. How many people have you run into that are in a similar situation. They want there to be more, but they don't want to have faith...they want it proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.
This makes me think of John 20:29. Jesus shows Thomas His wounds and Thomas believes. Jesus responds by saying:
"Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
May you be one of those how have not seen, yet believed.
Under the Mercy,
Jason
"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."
I can feel the tension and angst in the writer's pen. He knows there is something bigger and more beautiful than he can comprehend, but it is just out of reach. He is almost mad at God for allowing us to know that there is more, but not letting us see it.
I know this is a frustration with me. I want to "see" eternity. It is something I know is there...it is in my heart. But I just can't grasp it.
The writer ends up saying that ultimately we just have to accept it and find contentment in working then dying.
The writer refuses to believe that there is more because he can't see it or prove it. How many people have you run into that are in a similar situation. They want there to be more, but they don't want to have faith...they want it proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.
This makes me think of John 20:29. Jesus shows Thomas His wounds and Thomas believes. Jesus responds by saying:
"Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
May you be one of those how have not seen, yet believed.
Under the Mercy,
Jason
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