Riding home on the bus one evening I noticed a "car card" which advertised a local theater. It was illustrated with a picture of a grinning man with his wife and two children as they were about to leave home for the evening's entertainment. The man was shown switching off the light and saying: "LET US LIVE A LIFE IN TWO HOURS."
As I read the caption― the advertiser's "pitch" I thought, "Is that all the world can offer― a life in two hours? How short compared with eternity!"
And when the two hours are up, what then? An unsatisfied heart!
Amusement, pleasure, sport, entertainment of every kind is brought within the range of men, women, boys and girls today. The world continually tries to outdo itself to satisfy the heart estranged from God. But all is in vain; the void in the heart remains. There is only One who can satisfy the heart of man, and that is the God who made it.
What does God offer? Not a life in two hours, but a life in His presence for eternity― where there "is fullness of joy and pleasures for evermore." And not only this, but the satisfying knowledge of Himself here to fill and satisfy the heart.