A Sobering Reality

Beaver Creek, Colorado

Looking at the colors in this picture you might think these plants are growing in some tropical community rather than at over 8,000 ft. in elevation. I've got a strong feeling that come winter, these plants will disappear. Their life span is minimal at best.

"A voice says, 'Cry!' And I said, 'What shall I cry?' All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever." Isaiah 40:6-8 English Standard Version

Whether we live at 8,000 ft. or sea level, our lives will be cut short by death.

When we're young we think that we'll live forever. Death only encroaches on those who are old or unfortunate. But the older we become, the more we understand that "all flesh is grass" that withers and dies in a short period of time.

Rather sobering isn't it? Death, the result of sin, is sobering. Death does not respect age, gender or person. This fact hit me between the eyes in 1982 when I nearly died from a ruptured appendix.

God's promise runs contrary to this sobering reality of life. We will die but his word will never pass away.

His word of forgiveness will never pass away.

His word of hope will never pass away.

His word of comfort will never pass away.

In the frailty of the cross God confirms his eternal word. Though we will die, his word never will. And it is this word that brings eternal life.

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