The Gap of Eternity

Below is a video from Matt Chandler called ‘The Gap of Eternity’ where he talks of how the empty promises of many things in life can’t fill the ‘gap of eternity’.

I think C.S Lewis sums up so brilliantly why not:

‘Most people, if they have really learned to look into the own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise. The longings which arise in us when we first fall in love, or first think of some foreign country, or first take up some subject that excites us, are longings which no marriage, no travel, no learning, can really satisfy. I am not now speaking of what would be ordinarily called unsuccessful marriages, or holidays, or learned careers. I am speaking of the best possible ones. There was something we have grasped at, in the first moment of longing, which just fades away in the reality. I think everyone knows what I mean. The wife may be a good wife, and the hotels and scenery may have been excellent, and chemistry may be a very interesting job: but something has evaded us.’

Taken from Mere Christianity by C.S Lewis

The gap of eternity cant be filled by anything in this world. It is filled by the eternal God.