Contemplating Eternity with God

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

September 10, 2025

Contemplating Eternity with God

Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time.

He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so,

people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work

from beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 

Quoting Isaiah 64, the Apostle Paul, in 2 Corinthians 2:9b, provides me with helpful context for the passage in Ecclesiastes quoted above:

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard,

    and no mind has imagined

what God has prepared

    for those who love him.”

I am so blessed to live in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. Every day, as I walk around my neighborhood, or drive in and out of my community, I get to gaze toward notable peaks such as Mount Mitchell or Mount Pisgah. Glimpsing sunrises and sunsets, or the gases of the Milky Way in the night sky, causes me to ponder eternity and try to imagine what God has prepared for me.

In contrast, the evening news brings more tragic stories of unimaginable suffering in Gaza and Ukraine. Daily, Cheryl and I pray, “Give peace, O Lord, in all the world; for only in You can we live in safety.” Even so, the needs of those trapped in these wars outweigh our desperate prayers. I am writing this morning after a deluge of rain that has brought more flood warnings. And we are approaching the one-year anniversary when wind, rain and floods devastated our area. It is not selfish to seek solace from news of misery; it is self-care. Self-care that helps us stay in God’s grace for today.

My Takeaway: As I seek to stay in God’s grace for today, I am helped by daring to use the eternity God has planted in my heart to try and contemplate what He has prepared for this child of His who loves him.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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