Our grain of sand

Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. (NIV)

OK, confession here; I have been accused of “thinking things to death.” In my service business world the preparation of big jobs is critical to the execution and profitability of them. The better job I do planning, typically the better they go from start to finish. On the repair side of things as a service tech, anyone can be a parts changer, but it takes a inquisitive nature to dig deeper to find the root of whatever caused something to break. I spend a whole bunch of time racking my brain on both ends of the business. I can’t help but wonder if I was one of those “why” kiddo’s growing up? Do you want to know more? Do you understand that God wired you that way? God wired the desire for eternity into your hearts when he created you. It is by His design, that you have that tug for Him. It is by that design that you have that pursuit towards more than just this life here. Even in the pursuits that have gone astray, down false religions and heresies that have led people away from Jesus Christ, how can anyone believe there is not more to life than just our short time here?

Solomon was writing in Ecclesiastes about all the work or toil that face us for our time here. He wrote of the “vanity of vanities” for those that spend all their energies in what will truly pass away. Ecclesiastes 1:2 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” Solomon starts his book with what almost seems the closing line there; a life without God is a lost life. He was a person who had been given by God all the pleasures and pursuits that one could possibly want from life. Wisdom, riches, endless possessions and pursuits. But as he wrote this book near the end of his life, he had come to realize a life without God was meaningless. God had wired him with that draw towards eternity also; yet for so many years he lived his life in the temporal pleasure of the day.

There is no way we will ever grasp but a grain of sand in understanding God’s Sovereignty. His control of all that is placed before us is not something we can fathom. It is when we come to cherish that small glimpse found in our grain of sand, that we see and feel the evidences of Him around us. We are naturally bent towards that feeling inside of us for eternity; naturally drawn to that pursuit of desiring more of Him each and every day unto eternity. God has given us his Word to reveal himself to us. Paul in 1 Corinthians puts it like this: 13:12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now. (NLT) Spending daily time in His Word will continue to reveal more and more of the proofs of him to you, until he calls you home and you meet him in all his glory.