Scripture
Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.
~Ecclesiastes 3:11, NLT
Quote
We long for the perfect because the perfect exist.
~Jonathan Cohn
We came into this world with a longing, we were longing for milk. We had no idea what milk was or where it came from but we longed for it and within minutes of our birth, we cried out for milk. We had never tasted milk or seen milk and no one told us milk existed and yet we longed for it with a deep desire. The good news is that it turned out to be true, what we longed for was real; it existed. There was a mother and a mother’s breast to satisfy our longing. But of course we outgrew that longing and most of us do not remember nursing at our mother’s breast. Although our longing for milk has passed away, we find other longings in our heart. It is an emptiness, a hunger, a longing that is just as real as a babies longing for milk. We long for the perfect. We long for perfect love, perfect joy, perfect peace and perfect contentment.
We began trying to satisfy this longing with things from this world and then we discovered, the things of this world will not satisfy this longing. The older we get, the deeper the longing. We long to be free of this body of sin, to be free from the presence of sin, to live in a world where there is no sickness, sorrow, shame, sin or death. We long for the perfect because the perfect exist. God did not built a stair case leading to nowhere: there is a heaven as surely as there is milk. No, we have not seen heaven but God has put eternity in our hearts. He created us with a longing for something better and that something better exist.
EXTRA
It is official: we moved our Wednesday night fellowship to September 8. We will meet tomorrow night inside at 6:30. The Wednesday night format will be the same but we are going outside on Sunday mornings for a couple of weeks and maybe all of September. We will play it by ear. I got a card from Deborah yesterday: I still can’t believe Wade is gone. I believe his early promotion has been the biggest shock of my life; I’m still having a hard time believing this actually happened. Just seems like Wade should come bursting through the door with that big grin and a “Hey Bro.”
Supposed to rain all day which means study for me and I love it. Have a great day. Some one got my blog changed. I don’t know if was Holly {sister} or Catfish. I’m not sure this is the contact form you need but I added it. I hope it works.