Our verse for today is Ecclesiastes 3:11.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men.”
This verse reveals a remarkable truth about the human condition: God has “set eternity in the human heart.”
As a teenager, I heard people talking about how missionaries can go to the most remote places on earth and they find that the concept of God and eternity is already in the hearts of the people there. When explorers first came to North America, they did not bring the concept of God or eternity. It was already in the hearts of the native population. The thought of God and eternity is bound in everyone’s heart. That is the meaning in Ecclesiastes that says, God “set eternity in the human heart.”
Across cultures and history, even in places untouched by external influences, people have naturally been inclined toward worship, reverence for creation, or acknowledgment of God.
Why do I believe in God?
In the coming days, we will consider many classic proofs, but the first is that belief in God was put into our hearts. People may worship trees, cows, or the sun, but it is built into man to believe in and worship God.
I’m Lonnie Davis, and these are thoughts worth thinking.