Coming Tide

Coming Tide

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. Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV

I saw a family playing at the beach. Both parents and their son wrote their names in the sand. The son grabbed his dad's hand and said, "Now our names will be here forever." I remember a time as a child when I assumed that my parents and siblings would "always be there". And even now, I still struggle with the reality that I will lose my friends and my family. That is, unless they lose me first. And as much as loss seems to be the natural order of things, the supernatural always says differently. What is strange is how we accept loss as something that is normal. There isn't anything normal about abandonment, illness or death. The real normal is eternity. And a time is coming when the abnormal will be banished, for eternity.

I think that we are born with a sense that we are beings designed for eternity. And that belief in longevity comes out in a childlike yearning for things to last. Just like the rising tide will erase everything written in the sand, so will the troubles of life also rise and attempt to erase eternity from our minds. The Bible tells us to store the word in our hearts (Psalm 119:11). I think that when we take in God's word, it will meet up with God's eternity and spark an explosion of life, supernatural life. And that same supernatural life is at the heart of every follower of Christ.

Though the tides may come to sweep away hope, eternity has been placed in your heart by someone that loves you. God’s spark of life can never be swept away.