Have you ever finally gotten something you really wanted—and discovered it didn’t feel quite as good as you thought it would? Remember the new car? At first you park way out in the parking lot so nobody can ding it and six months later there are french fries fossilized between the seats.

We spend a lot of energy trying to get from here to there. When I graduate, when I get married, when I make enough money, when I finally get through this season. Somewhere inside us is the assumption: There will finally give me what here can’t, the problem is, every “there” eventually becomes another “here.”

We usually treat that restlessness like something is wrong with us. But what if at least part of that longing isn’t a human flaw, but a divine feature? Solomon says God has placed eternity in the human heart.

You were made for here. You were born in this time, living in this generation, surrounded by these people, with your gifts, experiences and opportunities. There is purpose for you here. But you were also built for more. God put eternal longing inside temporal people. That’s why money, success, experiences, recognition and upgrades can never completely satisfy us. We correctly sense, there must be more, but sometimes we’re looking for the right “more” in the wrong places.

We were made for here, but we’re built for more. We live inside time, but eternity is in our hearts. We experience days, but something inside us reaches beyond the horizon. We stand in “now,” yet somehow, we sense forever. That doesn’t make this life less important, t makes what we do here eternally significant.