A God-Given Desire to Know

Ecc 3:11 He has set the right time for everything. He has given us a desire to know the future, but never gives us the satisfaction of fully understanding what he does.

My desire to know what will happen, my desire to understand things in order to explain and forecast – this is from God.

However, a fulfilled desire doesn’t motivate – and so God never gives us the satisfaction of fully understanding – so that we will remain motivated to keep searching. In this search, in this partial understanding, we find a continuous drive – a continuous source of pleasure. There are few things in life as motivating as the sense of being on the brink of a new discovery, and few things as satisfying as the sense of growth that we experience when we appropriate new knowledge, a new understanding, and an improvement of character.