莫妮的內心充滿掙扎。她有一些相信耶穌的朋友，她覺得他們處理生命困境的方式很了不起，甚至還有些嫉妒他們。可是莫妮覺得自己不可能像他們那樣生活，她以為相信耶穌就是要遵守各種規條。最後，一位大學同學幫助她明白，上帝不是要破壞她的生活，而是希望在她人生的起起落落中，仍能得到最大的益處。莫妮一明白這個道理，便願意接受耶穌為她的救主，接受上帝愛她這偉大的真理。

所羅門王可能也會給莫妮類似的建議。所羅門王承認在這世界上確實有許多不幸的事。的確，「天下萬務都有定時」（傳道書3章1節），「哀慟有時，跳舞有時」（4節）。但不僅如此，上帝也「將永恆安放在世人心裡」（11節，和合本修訂版），而這「永恆」是要活在上帝的同在中。

正如耶穌所說的那樣，當莫妮相信耶穌時，就得到了「更豐盛」的生命（約翰福音10章10節）。不僅如此！因為莫妮的信心，那安置在她心裡的永恆（傳道書3章11節），成了她對未來的盼望。到那時，生活中的苦難將不再被記念（以賽亞書65章17節），上帝榮耀的同在將成為永恆真實的景況！

Monique was struggling. She had friends who were believers in Jesus, and she respected how they handled life’s struggles. She was even a bit jealous of them. But Monique didn’t think she could live the way they did; she thought having faith in Christ was about following rules. Finally, a fellow college student helped her see that God wasn’t out to spoil her life; instead, He wanted the best for her amidst her ups and downs. Once she understood this, Monique was ready to trust Jesus as her Savior and embrace the magnificent truth about God’s love for her.

King Solomon could have given Monique similar advice. He acknowledged that this world does have its sorrows. Indeed, there’s a “time for everything” (Ecclesiastes 3:1)—“a time to mourn and a time to dance” (v. 4). But there’s more. God “has also set eternity in the human heart” (v. 11). An eternity meant to be lived in His presence.

Monique gained life “to the full,” as Jesus said (John 10:10), when she trusted Him. But she gained so much more! Through faith, the “eternity in [her] heart” (Ecclesiastes 3:11) became the promise of a future when life’s struggles will be forgotten (Isaiah 65:17) and God’s glorious presence will be an eternal reality.