You were created for this

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Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Heaven”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “He has also put eternity in their hearts.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 (CSB)
 
Our thought for today: “You were created for this”
 
In Ecclesiastes 3:11 Solomon revealed a crucial fact about being human – we were made for heaven. We were not primarily created for life on earth. We were created for eternity in heaven.
 
The Amplified Bible is an English language translation that includes all the English words necessary to capture the full meaning of the original Hebrew or Greek. This can make for disjointed sentence structure and awkward reading, but it does provide all the words necessary to capture the full meaning of the original language. In the Amplified Bible Ecclesiastes 3:11 reads: “… He has also planted eternity (a sense of divine purpose) in the human heart (a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God) …”
 
The divine purpose Solomon refers to in that verse is God’s desire for us to spend eternity with Him in heaven. That’s what He created us for and that is why He designed an awareness of eternity into the human heart. There is a place in the human heart that’s reserved just for God. Nothing in all creation can occupy or fill that space except the Holy Spirit of God. That creates a longing in the human heart for God, and it explains why every civilization that has ever existed has always had a belief in the supernatural and they have all had a belief in God or in gods.
 
The early church father, Saint Augustine, once described it this way (in modern English): “You have created us for yourself, oh God, and our hearts are restless, searching, until we find our rest in you.” The 16th century French philosopher Blaise Pascal expressed the same thought when he wrote, “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of man that can only be filled by God.” Life leads to death and then into eternity. And if we have placed our faith in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins, that eternity will be in heaven with God.
 
But what is heaven, and what is it like? If that’s where we’re headed then we ought to know something about it. Therefore, we will make that the subject of our daily devotionals for this month. Although there is much about heaven that cannot be known now in this lifetime, the Bible does reveal much more about it than you might realize. We’ll spend our time this month discovering some of what God has revealed to us about it. You were created for heaven. So, let’s find out what it’s going to be like.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim
 
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