We got our first frost this last week and Ana’s garden is looking pretty sad. The tomato plants are drooping, the leaves on the squash are turning brown, and the flowers are all wilting away. It’s sad to see what was once so beautiful now dead and dying.
That’s the way of life though. Everything of this earth is temporary. As Peter said, “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.” (1 Peter 1:24 NKJV). We work and strive to get ahead, but disease still strikes, recessions still come, and gardens still wilt under the first frost of Fall. Old age still happens and all our efforts come to naught.
It’s no wonder Solomon, although surrounded by untold wealth, still lamented, “Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor in which I had toiled; and indeed all was vanity and grasping the wind.” (Ecclesiastes 2:11).
It would be easy to get discouraged by the temporariness of this life, but there is one thing that brings us hope – God’s Word still remains. “The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the Lord endures forever.” (1 Peter 1:24, 25).
Everything else will fade away, but we can always count on God’s Word. Even when all else fails us, the promises in God’s Word still stand. The Word who was in the beginning and was with God and was God, still reigns in Heaven. In Him is still life and that light is still the light of men.
Let Jesus guide your steps today. Let His Word be a lamp to your feet and a light to your path. (Ps 119:105). No matter what comes your way, hold tight to Jesus. In this world gardens will fade and plans fall through, but there is one thing which you can always count on, one thing which will always endure – the word of the Lord. Make it the center of your life today and every day till He comes.