A Spectacle Of Glory #289

Read: Ecclesiastes 3:11

Maybe you were blessed to have a dad or mom who read fairy tales to you when you were a child. Most of us can remember the last few words of each story: “And they lived happily ever after.” No one had to explain what those words meant. We just knew. We understand those words because today’s Scripture explains that “[God] has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” God has placed within us a strong sense of “happily ever after,” and yet there are things about life today we simply can’t fathom. Yes, we were made for eternity—and it’s in the deepest places of our hearts. We were also made for earth, however, and earth is no fairy tale. But the true Prince has kissed you with His peace, and He has promised that, together with Him, you will one day live happily ever after.

Lord, we long for happy endings. We long for reconciled marriages, the return of prodigal children, and the cure for cruel diseases that tear loved ones from us. But many of those happy endings are out of reach. Fill my heart today with thoughts of my eternal home, where there will be no endings at all.