Eternity in Our Hearts - Scripture Challenge - Day 11
“He has made everything fitting in its time, but has also placed eternity in their hearts,
without enabling them to discover what God has done from beginning to end.”
As we continue our Scripture Challenge, Day 11 brings us to a verse that offers both mystery and beauty. Ecclesiastes 3:11 reminds us that God’s hand is in everything—each season, each change, each moment. But it also humbles us. Though we long to understand the full picture, we see only a part of the grand tapestry He’s weaving.
We live in a world marked by time—waking and sleeping, beginnings and endings, deadlines and due dates. Yet, deep within each of us is a yearning for something more—something eternal. This desire, as Scripture says, was placed there by God. It’s not an accident that we hunger for purpose, for a story beyond our own. We were created with eternity in our hearts, and no earthly success or season will fully satisfy that longing.
Still, we are not given the complete blueprint of God’s plan. That can be frustrating for our human minds, can’t it? We want to know why certain things happen, when prayers will be answered, or how situations will turn out. But instead of fully understanding, God invites us to trust. He calls us to marvel at His timing, to wait on His purposes, and to live faithfully even when we don’t see the whole picture.
The tension between time and eternity is holy. It draws us closer to the Creator, the only One who sees it all. What if our limitations are actually invitations—to worship more deeply, to walk more closely, and to surrender more completely?
Reflection Questions:
What does it mean to you that God has “placed eternity” in your heart?
Can you recall a time when something didn’t make sense in the moment but made sense later? How did you see God’s timing at work?
In what areas of your life are you struggling to trust God’s timing right now?
How can you shift your focus from trying to understand everything to simply worshiping the One who does?
May today be a gentle reminder that even in the unknown, you are held by a God who knows the end from the beginning. You were made for more than this moment—and that longing for “more” is not a flaw, but a gift from the Eternal One.
Let Him carry the timeline. You carry the trust. 💛