God has made everything appropriate to its time, and has put the timeless into their hearts. Qoheleth says that there is a time for every purpose under heaven. That is where we put our energies, right? “A time to be born, and a time to die,” etc. But besides all of these aspects of living in time the author reminds us that there are things beyond what we know of time, he calls it “the timeless” which are also part of the human condition. We live according to the philosophers Sub specie aeternitatis (Latin for “from the perspective of eternity.”) We are not just concerned with planting and reaping and all the rest, we are concerned about what is beyond the mundance existence which we know. We are made for more, we are made for God. There are human purposes not only “under heaven” but also in heaven. St. Paul puts it: If our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world. Our hopes are for glory!
