DTEB, “YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO FOREVER RIGHT NOW!”
I was whining around to my sweetheart about the fact that I haven’t read all the scholarly articles and books that I should have read. Of course, the question that might be asked is this: Who has read all the scholarly books and articles? However, this is cold comfort. “The heart knows its own bitterness.” (Proverbs 14:10a)
Then, whether as a dodge or as a wise word, I added, “Well, there is eternity, I suppose.”
And the love of my life said, “And you don’t have to do forever right now!”
Now that was a wise saying!
I am not sure what Ecclesiastes 3:11 means when it says, “God . . . has planted eternity in the human heart . . . .” But I do know that verse 11 comes after verses 1-10. (See! I really am pretty sharp!) And verses 1-10 talk about how there is an appropriate time for all things. God may have planted eternity in our hearts, but God has planted us in time.
A time for everything? Well, not exactly. Not even the Preacher of Ecclesiastes (who was the skeptics skeptic) said that there was a time for regrets about the past or worries about the future.
And I suspect that the author of Ecclesiastes would agree with my wife that “you don’t have to do forever right now.”
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