Ecclesiastes 3:10-14
God Has Set Eternity in Our Hearts
10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.
Genesis 28:10-17
Jacob’s Dream at Bethel
10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. 11 When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.12 He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. 15 I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
16 When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” 17 He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”
God has set eternity in the human heart...There are slices and glimpses of God all around us...These slices and glimpses of the Eternal God are all around us...We sometimes do not see them clearly and other slices and glimpses we do...These are fleeting moments, but important Spiritual moments in our lives...These fleeting slices and glimpses somehow get magnified and remembered in our hearts, and it is they will last an eternity...These moments touch the human heart...It is like the Holy Spirit is guiding us toward Him...
Sometimes we have a dream and forget about the dream quickly...Dreams seem to have been watched more closely years and years ago...One of these Spiritual moments came to Jacob one night in a dream of a ladder to heaven...Jacob had a dream about the LORD and the LORD said, “I AM the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac...I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying...Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south...All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring...I AM with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land...I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”...When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”...He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place!...This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”...
God gives us these glimpses and slices to make us believe and have faith that He is near us and that we would seek Him...He gives us these Spiritual moments to show that He is above and is eternal and has Providence over all things...The Holy Spirit touches the heart ever so gently, in these fleeting moments...And even though they are very fleeting and we see only a glimpse, they are precious and comforting to us...