Gone!

 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 5
 
Another year has gone. Gone—with so many dead hopes—so many withered dreams—so many wasted efforts and ruined plans. Gone, too, with loved, familiar faces—with loved ones and friends we will see no more on earth. What a sense of loss and loneliness remains!
Is that all that remains? Will every passing year bring only more disappointments, more changes, more losses? Can nothing stay the same? No one?
Yes, One. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever." Hebrews 13:88Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. (Hebrews 13:8). Nearly two thousand years have come and gone since He came to earth to seek and to save the lost, and still His arms are stretched out in love to all who will come.
The world changes, faster and faster it seems, with every year that comes. Still He changes not. Still He offers salvation-not for a month or a year, but forever. Why not look beyond the ever-darkening years to the eternity ahead, and accept His offer of life, and peace, and everlasting love?
"For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." 1 Peter 1:24, 2524For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. (1 Peter 1:24‑25).