Ecclesiastes 3:11 - 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.
We are designed for eternity. Our essence is designed to exist in forever and to understand mysteries and complexities only recognized outside of time.
How often do we fail to see beauty because we are so consumed by time? Perhaps the true loveliness we desire comes in the arms of patience and endurance.
Modern thought claims that personal morality is the only form of authentic ethics any human can have. This present age claims that right and wrong are entirely a matter of the present culture, the persuasion of the time, the preference of the temporal. There is no essence, there is no other, there is no more. There is only me. Therefore, we strive, struggle, lie, steal, and kill in order to manufacture beauty out of our own reality in this moment. But the ugliness of our selfishness cannot delve it's fingers into the softness of truth and mold beauty of out squalor. It takes patient hands, working in subtle pressure and fierce fire, to create beauty from mud.
We know only God constructs beauty. We know eternity awaits our final breath. We know He works from beginning to end.
But human beings hate the knowledge of beauty we have not made with our own gnarled hands. We hate the wait. We hate what patience requires: malleability.
Submission. Bending to Him. Spiraling into His plan. Leaning into His thoughts. No resistance. Our hearts know that eternity exists. Our souls sing to patience. But our will just cannot manage the endurance and malleability required for hope.
Do you live with eternity in your heart? Are your will, your spirit, and your life soft to the hands of God who works for beauty in His time? Can you wait long enough for loveliness?
This has been a topic in our house for months. Thank you for this blog.
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