

Eternity and the Human Heart
“A divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages…”
(Ecclesiastes 3:11 AMPC)
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men’s hearts and minds — a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages, which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy; yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.”
God is revealing Himself to us amid a progressive plan that builds the essence of relationship —
— especially and particularly by use of developmentally revelatory stages…and also by building the all-important relational foundation of heart to Heart trust.
He veils Himself from corrupted flesh, like He did through Jesus’ use of parables…And He does this so as to filter out all antithetical motives for receiving His grace and love.
He is progressively revealing Himself to us finite creations, as simultaneously both knowable and unfathomable at once…
Amid the same contextual section in that chapter of Ecclesiastes,
Solomon also indicates another aspect of God‘s purpose for much of what He’s doing:
We need to know that whoever has self-separated from God, is ultimately hostile to truth and love, and is dying.
So Solomon notes that the fall of humanity would leave us little better than beasts…
Except that in the New Covenant, God reveals His willingness to impute and impart to us, Jesus’ own righteousness and holy resurrection.
We have already experientially tasted whatever we could find apart from, and opposite of God…
…until we’re humbled by reality, and are granted to receive His Light and Love, by simply honest faith.
And now, we may simply trust in Jesus, as God’s own provision of restored unity with Himself — Who is now our perfect and eternal Source.
He is the One in Who’s image we are made, and it is amid His own imputed and infusing nature that we are meant to thrive.
By the Light of His Spirit, we may now know and apply the contrasting clarification of what — or rather Who — Love really Is.
