It's All Going to Fade
A voice says, "Call out."
Then he answered, "What shall I call out?"
All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.
--Isaiah 40:6-8 NASB
In this passage the voice of God calls to the prophet Isaiah, reminding him of the mortality of man and the immortality of God and His promises. In short, we are temporary, God is not.
Of course, we each have an eternal aspect to us, and we each must decide how and where that eternity is to be spent. But the physical part of what we now are and what we now do, that will fade--our inventions, our knowledge, our achievements, past, present and future. One day, sooner or later, it will all be gone.
After reviewing the literal translations of the Hebrew used in this passage, I came up with this personalized and amplified version of God's message to Isaiah:
All of our physical nature is like the grass, and everything that we have and ever will achieve is like the glory of the flowers of the field. The grass withers and dries up and the flowers seem as foolishness when breathed upon by the Lord God. Surely we all are as temporary as the grass. We and our achievements will wither and dry up; they will eventually seem as foolishness. But everything of God--all that He is, all that He does, and all of His promises--will be always.
Father, when I think that things cannot be worse, remind me that they are temporary. And when I think that things cannot be better, also remind me that they are temporary. You and Your promises are eternal. Your deeds will last. In all things, help me to think and to do in ways that lend themselves to Your eternal glory. In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
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Then he answered, "What shall I call out?"
All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.
--Isaiah 40:6-8 NASB
In this passage the voice of God calls to the prophet Isaiah, reminding him of the mortality of man and the immortality of God and His promises. In short, we are temporary, God is not.
Of course, we each have an eternal aspect to us, and we each must decide how and where that eternity is to be spent. But the physical part of what we now are and what we now do, that will fade--our inventions, our knowledge, our achievements, past, present and future. One day, sooner or later, it will all be gone.
After reviewing the literal translations of the Hebrew used in this passage, I came up with this personalized and amplified version of God's message to Isaiah:
All of our physical nature is like the grass, and everything that we have and ever will achieve is like the glory of the flowers of the field. The grass withers and dries up and the flowers seem as foolishness when breathed upon by the Lord God. Surely we all are as temporary as the grass. We and our achievements will wither and dry up; they will eventually seem as foolishness. But everything of God--all that He is, all that He does, and all of His promises--will be always.
Father, when I think that things cannot be worse, remind me that they are temporary. And when I think that things cannot be better, also remind me that they are temporary. You and Your promises are eternal. Your deeds will last. In all things, help me to think and to do in ways that lend themselves to Your eternal glory. In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
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