As I look outside my office window, I am blessed to look out and see the beauty of mountains with their peaks with just a hint of snow. I am able to see for several miles the rolling hills. At this time I am able to see the clouds creep up and over the mountains as a cool from works its way to the east. All beautiful reminders of God's glorious creation.
I am also able to see the roofs of many homes. I am able to see the lights of cars going up and down the road. This time of day many are working their way back home after a hard day's work. I see many electrical poles which connect us to power to light our homes, phone lines to talk to one another many miles apart, cable lines so that we can watch our favorite movie or sporting event or whatever else we want. The power also provides for our computers from which we can now talk to virtually anywhere in the world, shop for almost anything in the world, connect with almost anyone or anything in the world.
As I think about these two pictures a striking thing becomes apparent. When I look at what God made, I worship, I find peace, I find quiet. When I look at what man has made I find work, I find noise, I find struggle. Isn't it interesting that what God makes brings peace, what man makes brings something else. Yet the ingenuity of man addicts us to those things in the hopes that they will give us that which only God can give...peace.
Solomon reminds us that God has placed eternity in man's heart, maybe we ought to quit trying to fill eternity with things that aren't eternal.
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