He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of people, yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. There's a haunting line here. We have this sense of something eternal, something that lasts beyond time. But we can't figure out what it is. We can feel it but not fully grasp it.
I've experienced this in moments. Moments of beauty or connection or loss where I feel something that doesn't fit into the ordinary measurements of time. It's as if another dimension brushes against this one and I'm caught in both at once. That's what the verse is naming. You've been made to long for something beyond the temporal.
The tragedy is that we often spend our whole lives trying to fill that eternal longing with temporary things. We buy stuff, chase success, pursue pleasures, all in an attempt to fill the space where eternity should live. The verse suggests a different path: let yourself feel the longing. Let yourself wonder about what's beyond. That wondering itself might be the most meaningful thing about being human.
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