You are Grass

You Are Grass

“A voice says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What shall I cry?” 

“All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. 

The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass. 

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.” 

                                                                                                     Isaiah 40:6-8
      Question, do you know who the following are?
Humphry Davy, Peter Durand, Samuel Fahnestock, Barthelemy Thimonnier, John Walker.
Each one of these men have a first to their name. Each one created what today are common things, Humphry Davy invents the first electric light, the first arc lamp.
Peter Durand invents the tin can. Samuel Fahnestock patented a soda fountain.  Barthelemy Thimonnier invents a sewing machine. John Walker invents modern matches.
These men invented things we in the twenty-first century take for granted yet their names for the most part are lost to history. Remembered only in dusty library books or found in the occasional google search.
There inventions it could be argued made life somewhat better today. Yet their inventors names are not remembered.
“The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass.”
States the prophet. “People are grass.”
Have you ever looked out over a field of tall grass? Have you ever picked out a single blade of grass somewhere in the middle of that field. Then closed your eyes and turned three hundred sixty degrees, opened your eyes and tried to find that exact blade of grass again?
It’s virtually impossible.
That’s the way it is with humanity. Most people will enter this world live their whole lives in almost total obscurity and die never to be remembered except by a few close family. Even then after several generations the person is forgotten.
“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.” Nero the persecutor of Christians has long past on to stand before his judge. And other than his name what he said is unknown.
Yet the word of God he tried to suppress continues on.
God’s word in the Bible is eternal. It is a road map to heaven. It doesn’t change. The words are eternal.
Today as you’re reading this I urge you to pick up a Bible and read it from cover to cover.
I find many of those who don’t believe the Bible have never read it. They have come to the conclusion that it is a flawed book with mistakes. Yet when asked to name a dozen mistakes in it they can’t.
I believe the Bible because I have read it with an open mind and come to the conclusion that it what is contained within it is real and relevant for today.
Can you honestly say you have read it without any preconceived ideas and come to the conclusions you hold today.
Think about it.