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The Epiousios — ἐπιούσιος, the “daily” of “give us this day our daily bread”. It stands in and , and nowhere else in Scripture.

Monday, 9 February 2026

Eternity Set in the Heart

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The Primary Text

“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”— (KJV)Read Ecclesiastes 3 in full →

The Lexicon

עוֹלָם (olam) — Noun, masculine

From the Hebrew עוֹלָם (olam), from alam (to conceal): the vanishing point; time out of sight in either direction; and so, eternity, the age, the world. Semantic force: The root sense is of what is hidden by distance rather than of infinity as a quantity. Olam is the horizon — real, and never arrived at. Theological depth: The Preacher says God has set olam in the heart of man. Whatever else that means, it locates the human restlessness with time inside a deliberate act of God rather than treating it as a defect.

Logos Unveiled

Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. Written by Brother Adamson Ndhlovu — what is taught here is set out in the statement of faith.

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Supporting Scriptures

A Time to Every PurposeOld Testament

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”

(KJV)

The famous catalogue of seasons comes immediately before this verse and is the evidence for it.

The Restless CreatureNew Testament

“For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”

(KJV)

Paul says the creation itself was subjected to vanity in hope, which is the New Testament reading of the Preacher's complaint.

The Exposition

Ecclesiastes is the strangest book in the canon and the most modern. Its author has money, power, wisdom and every pleasure available, and he reports that he has looked into all of it and found the same thing: vapour. Nothing lasts. Everything repeats. The wise man dies exactly as the fool does. Into that, this verse. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. The word translated "world" is olam — eternity, the horizon, time out of sight. God has put the horizon inside us. That is why a creature who lives seventy years cannot stop thinking about forever; why we build monuments, keep photographs, and are troubled by the passing of time in a way no animal is. The restlessness is not a fault in our wiring. It was installed. And then the sting in the same sentence: so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. We have been given the sense of eternity and denied the view of it. We can feel that the story has a shape and cannot see the shape. That is the exact condition the whole book describes, and here the Preacher says it is deliberate. Which turns his complaint into something closer to a mercy. A creature with no sense of eternity would be content, and would be less than human. A creature with the full sight of it would not need to trust anyone. What we have instead is a horizon and a promise — enough to know we were made for more than this, and not enough to stop us walking by faith toward it.

The Altar

Write down one thing you have been unable to make sense of. Under it write the words "from the beginning to the end", and leave the question with the only one who sees both.

Daily Reading & Meditation

Passage:

Focus: Read the catalogue of seasons slowly and notice how many of them are things nobody would choose, and that they are listed without apology.

Ask yourself: What are you trying hardest to understand at the moment? Consider that the inability to see the whole may not be a failure of your faith but the condition God has deliberately set you in.

My Father in heaven, I thank You that You set eternity in my heart, and that the restlessness I feel is not a defect but a homing instinct. Forgive me for demanding to see the whole of Your work before I will trust You with the part I am in. By Your Holy Spirit teach me to walk without the view. I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus, who is the beginning and the end. Amen.

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