Wednesday, March 16, 2016

By The Word of the Lord Shall We Endure Forever


1 Peter 1: 24-25

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord endures forever.”

What a fascinating quandary.  The Word of the Lord endures forever.  If is the Word of the Lord that created all, could an argument be made that creation endures forever?  Maybe, if Genesis did not include the story of the fall of humanity.  Maybe the intention was for humanity to endure forever as created by the Word of the Lord.  But then, well, flesh is like grass and grass withers.

But Peter is not dwelling on what has faded, what has withered.  In the next sentence, he will reveal that the Word of the Lord is what has been revealed to his readers, and to us.  So, it is through Jesus that the perishable has been made imperishable, the Fall of Humanity has been turned to the lifting of Humanity to God’s gracious mercy once more. 

The joy of our life in Christ is that we bring together this life with the next.  Yesterday, I asked if we were ready to die well?  The beauty is, we are not going to die, not if we walk in the pathway of our Lord Jesus Christ.  It can make the brain ache to consider the possibilities of the power and majesty of our Lord.

But what transcends those brain aches is the promise of the Lord’s eternal Word.  And the power of that Word is that we shall be made imperishable, that we shall endure forever as the products and recipients of the Word of God.

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