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“All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field…the grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever” (Isaiah 40:6,8).
God has given us beauty in His creation for us to enjoy, but from our verse today, we see that it is all temporary. Even trees, which sometimes live for hundreds of years, eventually get old and die. I remember the sad feeling I had when a large elm tree on the farm where I lived, probably over 100 years old, got so-called Dutch elm disease and died. Whether it is big trees, or just the grass and flowers in the field, all of them wither and die.
You and I are like that too, in our human bodies. Those bodies get old and die. We know, of course, that our soul and spirit will live forever, for man was made for eternity, not for time. But here in our verse we are reminded that something else will stand forever—the Word of God. We can rest on His Word, for it will never fail, nor does it ever need to be changed or replaced.
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