God’s Enduring Word

God’s Enduring Word – Isaiah chapter 40, verses 6 to 8

A voice says, ‘Cry out.’
    And I said, ‘What shall I cry?’

‘All people are like grass,
    and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.
⁷ The grass withers and the flowers fall,
    because the breath of the Lord blows on them.
    Surely the people are grass.
⁸ The grass withers and the flowers fall,
    but the word of our God endures for ever.

Isaiah 40:6-8 New International Version – UK (NIVUK) Holy Bible, New International Version® Anglicized, NIV® Copyright © 1979, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

We are temporary

We are like the flowers and grass – here today and gone tomorrow. “

“The grass withers and the flowers fall,
because the breath of the Lord blows on them.
Surely the people are grass.” Verses 6 and 7

Something that is not temporary and fleeting

“The grass withers and the flowers fall,
    but the word of our God endures for ever.” Verse 8

Here is enduring hope for life beyond this fleeting one.

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