Ecclesiastes 3:10–13 (ESV)
10 I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 12 I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; 13 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.
NOTE: God has made everything beautiful and his time and man has ruined everything in time. Of course, the architect of this ruin is the evil one. He has taken God's good things -- two sexes, marriage, work, relationships, creation -- and has created new and ugly things out of what was beautiful. We don't know what eternity holds, although we were designed for eternity. God will restore many aspects of the original creation, and then will create something entirely new. And we will have new bodies, free of sin, and not susceptible to the evil one's schemes -- and finally we will have good things again, the way God intended life to be.
But for now we suffer. The world blames our pain on our adherence to old fashioned ideas of God, but the pain has only increased as we have removed God more and more from life. Man's solutions will always be ugly. God makes things beautiful, at least until man comes along and takes one of God's things and makes it religious, then it also becomes ugly.
PONDER:
- Am I seeking fulfillment in human effort and ideas?
- Am I truly seeking God and his will for my life?
PRAYER: Father, we do take beautiful things and ideas, and transform them into monsters, and then we rejoice in what we created -- pure ugliness. Open our eyes. Help us to see or moral bankrupt-ness.
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