Life!

Life! 

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.” Isaiah 40:8 NIV

When we consider all that life shows us, there must be fundamental truths that life can teach us, if we can only listen and observe attentively. Two of such things that life can use to teach us eternal lessons, based on today's extract, are flowers and grass. By God's own laws of nature, He has laid down the law of sowing and reaping. He has made it clear that a seed put in the ground, and nurtured in the right conditions, will bear fruit in multiple folds that will look like the natural consequence of the seed that was put in the ground. There is yet no scientific breakthrough that is able to go into the ground that can change the output of the seed in the ground, unless there is engrafting or cross-pollination, which occurs when the seed only has some form of output. That is the power of the God that speaks here.

There is yet another law at work, and it is the law of life and death. We do not speak so much about this law because it is not a popular one, but let it be noted that there is nothing that is put in the ground that does not first die before it can bear fruit, and when it has borne fruit, even the fruit, if left on the tree unplucked and uneaten, will also die. The entire stalk or tree, if left long enough, will one day die and give way to another. This truth is eternal, for as long as the earth remains. It is a cycle of birth, death and rebirth that makes holding on to anything of earth worthless and pointless. No matter how much I love a thing, as long as there is a seed involved, it must go through the never-ending cycle of birth, death and rebirth, until the end truly comes.

This reality has to be my daily focus, guiding my principles, pursuits and priorities. There is nothing of the earth that will outlive the earth. All that the earth gives you, it will take back from you when it is time for you to leave the earth. Have you seen anyone who went to eternity with any of the world's goods? Even if buried with treasures, men of the earth will come and loot, because the treasure of the earth can only be spent by the people who live on the earth. There is something, or someone who does live forever, and that is the Word of God. We refer to the Word as both a person and a force; it is the person who made the earth, as well as the power behind, over and around all that we see today. 

The Word of God lives forever, because He cannot die. He is not of the earth, even though he came to the earth to introduce eternal lfe to us. The earth only has power over all who are of it, like the flowers and grass. The Word of God is God, of incorruptible and inexhaustible depth and scope. It has no limits or end, and is inexhaustible. It does not die because it does not have any of the properties that are subject to the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. All who are in him also enjoy the life that He is and has, and he invites you and I to take of him and enjoy all He is. I owe it to my eternity to be sure that what I hold on to can guarantee life. God's time of favour is here.