He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity
in their hearts....
--Ecclesiastes 3:11
We take it for granted and we are not surprised at all about the
eternal nature of God but the greater wonder is that God has seen fit
to put His own everlastingness within the hearts of men and women....
I believe that this is the truth about our troubles and our problems:
We are disturbed because God has put everlastingness in our hearts.
He has put a longing for immortality in our beings. He has put
something within men and women that demands God and heaven--and yet we
are too blind and sinful to find Him or even to look for Him!...
Men and women need to be told plainly, and again and again, why they
are disturbed and why they are upset. They need to be told why they
are lost and that if they will not repent they will certainly perish.
Doctors and counselors will tell troubled men and women that their
problems are psychological, but it is something deeper within the
human being that troubles and upsets--it is the longing after
eternity!
Christ the Eternal Son, pp. 52-54
