Episode
Ep 130: Eternal desires & joy (Ecc 3:9-13).
- Podcast
- Old things New Podcast
- Published
- Dec 30, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 766
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/old-things-new-podcast-7097890/episodes/ep-130-eternal-desires-joy-ecc-3-9-13/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/old-things-new-podcast-7097890/ep-130-eternal-desires-joy-ecc-3-9-13.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Pray Read: Ecc 3:9-13. Meditation Solomon says in verse nine that the deepest pulse of the human soul is the desire for beauty and joy and goodness. We long for it. We want to see it, and taste it, and touch it, and hear it. We want fulfillment and laughter, and wonder, and beauty, and joy. There is an insatiable, ravenous desire in every heart, longing to be satisfied with goodness and beauty. We are compelled to pursue it, and we always want more. The truth is that there is an infinite hole in our souls, constantly longing and craving to be filled with something good. That is what Solomon means when he says in verse 11, “He has put eternity into man’s heart.” And nothing in this world can fill that hole. But there is something else here as well. This desire for goodness and satisfaction is not doomed to emptiness. God made us this way. That desire for goodness, truth, and beauty is a gift from him. As verse 11 says, “He has put eternity into man’s heart.” He did that for a good reason. The reason is not to deny us joy. The reason, in Christ, is to fill us. Why would he make a hole in our hearts as wide and infinite as eternity itself? There is one single reason, because he wants to fill it. Our souls were designed to feast upon God. They were designed to be lavished with his love again and again. We were designed to be drowned and immersed and saturated and overcome by his beauty and goodness. The psalmist puts it this way in Psalm 37:4, “Delight yourself in the Lord.” Again he says, “Whom have I in heaven but you? And the earth has nothing that I desire besides you.” God the Father, revealed through Christ by the Spirit, is our ultimate good. This is the reason he has saved us, so that he, the source and substance of all that is beautiful, God himself, will satisfy…