Remember the James Bond movie called, "The World is Not Enough"? I think it was the one with the explosions, beautiful women, fast cars and double agents. Or was that the other 007 movie? This one was playing on cable this Sunday but I didn't get a chance to watch it. However, the title has stayed in my head all week. The world is not enough.

No kidding. This world is nowhere near enough. We are dissatisfied and we know it. We ache for something more. We're not sure what that "more" is, so, like Bond, we try grand adventures. We have affairs, spend more than we make, quit jobs, abandon friendships, drink too much, sleep too little...and still, it's not enough. It's never enough.

The textbook of wild living is Solomon's journal, otherwise known as Ecclesiastes. He tells the rather pathetic tale of a guy who tries wine, women and song, and finds them all lacking. He tries work. He tries not working. He tries spending money. He tries saving money. You name it, Solomon tries it. He tries it all. At many points, in frustration, he cries out, "Meaningless, meaningless, it's all meaningless."

Truer words were never spoken. It's a deep scriptural Truth that this world is not enough. We were fitted for eternity. Ecclesiastes 3:10-11 says, "God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end."

He has set eternity in our hearts, like a microchip. He made us for forever. Ever have the sense that you are just passing through? You are. Don't understand how exactly it all works out? That was programmed in, too. We can't fathom. God, in His wisdom, did not give us the complete understanding of how it fits together. We just know, like Bond and like Solomon, that we were made for something bigger.

So take heart. This world is not your permanent home. Your sense that this is not enough is completely correct. What you see around you right now may not be beautiful...yet. But it will be utterly beautiful in its time.