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Eternity in their Hearts

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. - The Bible Ecclesiastes 3:11

Reading these words, they make as much sense today as they did when they were first written more than 2400 years ago. Since the time that this was written, many advances and discoveries have been made in natural science, yet this is just as true now as it was then.


The one who penned this verse must have stood in awe of nature, looking up at the night sky, wondering exactly what it was all about. The more we discover, the less we know. The more we have to say that we cannot fathom all that has been done from the beginning of creation until now. From the depths of the sea to the broad expanses of the universe. Looking deeply into the human cell through a microscope, or deep back into time through a telescope.

We, like the poet David in the Bible can only stand, slack-jawed and say, "when I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?" (Psalm 8: 3-4)

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