Title: The Longing for Eternity
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It is the Sunday of the year 1969. It feels like June 25 was yesterday, but 20 years have already passed. Ten years ago, the 40-year-old passed 50 today, and on June 25, a young blue-eyed young man with gray hair today entered the twilight of his life. When I look back on the year I have walked through, it has gone by so quickly, and there has never been a time in the past when life felt so much on my skin. I know that many of the alumni are busy with their three-year-old birthday, but I hope you will take this time to look back on the life we have walked and think about how you feel. "What is the profit of all the toil and labor of the soul under the sun? All the days of life, toil with sorrow is nothing but sorrow. His heart does not rest at night, and this is also in vain. like" (Ecclesiastes 2:22-26).
You are the evangelists of Israel, a small country in the Middle East, 2,000 years ago. These words were used in the lesson of a prince who had a precious status, but what are these words that represent my heart today? I have seen countless acrobats catching the wind right before our eyes, coming and going again with empty fur and closing their eyes. When I saw the pitiful figure of Mt. Bukmang rotting to a handful of dirt, I could not see it without sorrow.
No matter what, people are entangled in the web of time and cannot escape. Our grandmothers and grandfathers always say that 20 years is the same as yesterday and yesterday, and they hate it when they say they are old. And he tries to make you feel like a blue boy or girl. But the world does not accept such an illusion, and time does not step back for the grandfather and grandmother. It sounds ominous, but time has cut our lives like wild saw teeth, and we don't have much time left. And when they die, they cannot take with them the money, authority, clothes, jewels, land, or anything that they have worked so hard for their whole life. What does it mean that God created such an empty life and created the world's finest?
This evangelist answers that question in one word here. “God has put in man a longing for eternity” (verse 11). Today I want to tell you exactly this. I'm recently reading a book by the French priest, geologist, and world-renowned Pierre de Chardin, whose research shows that the origin of life begins with bacteria, evolves slowly, and eventually reaches primates, where the mind dominates matter. It is said to be the process of reaching the point, and it is said that the end of mankind will reach that point, that is, it will reach the point of Omega. In the past, materialist evolutionists believed that the principle of survival of the fittest was based on physical and material superiority. He made these announcements through natural science research, but this evangelist already said that God has given the human heart to longing for eternity. It is said that a person without this heart will self-destruct even in the evolutionary principle of the survival of the fittest.
It is said that all human beings are equal, and there is no man above man and no man below man. But even among humans, there are inferior humans and superior humans, there is a human layer that evolves and develops, and there is a human layer that degenerates and perishes. The very difference is whether human beings have the heart to long for eternity, or whether they only have the heart to long for the moment and the world. It is here that this evangelist preached the futility of human beings, not only in a spiritual sense, but also in a physiological sense. In order for human beings to develop excellently, they must have a heart that longs for eternity, a true value, a state of the soul, and a heart that longs for God. A person with a longing for eternity is advancing without revolving around time. For those with a longing for the real world and the world, time is a circle, but for those with a longing for eternity, time is progressing from the beginning.
Therefore, we, Christians, seek, long for, and live the eternity of tomorrow, from this point of time. Those with a longing for eternity long for a work that will last forever. People live, everyone works and lives. what to do What are you going to do while you have only one lifetime to live? Some people long for a job that can only be done in one day. Some people long for a job that only lasts a year. Some end up longing for a job that only lasts 10 years. Some long for something they can only do in their lifetime. But they all disappear without a trace. Your emptiness comes right here. Some leave art behind. Life is short and art is long. But a work that is more eternal than art is God's mission. Business for the human soul. It is a business that creates eternal value.
I long for a name that will last forever. Names are important to us. A country with a single name is a human target. It is a matter of what kind of existence these three-named human beings will remain. There are many among us whose names have been buried and disappeared with his existence. Some people's names end with an engraved stone. However, the name that will truly remain forever is that my name remains in God's book of life. Those who live so that my name is not obscured from the book of life do not know the meaning of emptiness.