Monday, June 19, 2023
What We All Have in Common
Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. (Romans 8:20-21 NLT)
Some people dedicate their lives to acquiring possessions. Others dedicate their lives to getting the finest education available. And still others dedicate their lives to romantic relationships.
But ultimately they will discover that if they forget about God in their pursuits, it will result in something called emptiness. Take it from an expert, Solomon, who wrote the Book of Ecclesiastes.
Solomon knew about these things firsthand. He went on a quest, almost treating it as a research project. He decided to try everything the world had to offer. He wouldn’t merely read about it or take someone else’s word for it. He would experience it personally. He was on a search for truth.
Really, all of humanity is on a quest as well. We’re searching for that something more in life. When God created us, He wired us that way.
The Bible says that God “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 NLT).
This simply means there is something in the heart of every person, uniquely created in the image of God, that knows something more is out there.
Romans 8:20 tells us, “Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse” (NLT). Or, as the New King James Version puts it, “The creation was subjected to futility.”
Benjamin Disraeli, a nineteenth-century British prime minister, concluded, “Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.” There is something in us that this earth can never satisfy. That is why there are so many miserable successful people.
As Solomon so wisely observed, just as death and destruction are never satisfied, human desire is never satisfied. We are designed to know God and live above the mundane existence that we call life. The answer to all our questions is found in a relationship with God.
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