"For 'all men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.'"(1 Peter 1:24)
In, "Fiddler on the Roof," Teyve is fond of saying, "As the Good Book says." At one point he says to Mendel, "As the Good Book says, 'When a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick.'" Mendel replies, "Where does the Book say that?" Teyve responds, "Well, it doesn't say that exactly, but somewhere there is something about a chicken." C.S. Lewis once summed up the dichotomy of Christians in politics. "Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party." Teyve was a "good" religious man in many ways, but, just as so many today, he was always hoping there was something in the "Good Book" to explain, even justify his life experiences. This life approach is the great temptation. But such approach to life leaves us "withered."
Our text declares that you and I are "grass." Our ideas, philosophies, perceptions, understanding, everything about us is just "grass." When man attempts to elevate anything above "the word of the Lord," he "withers and...fall[s]." But to the degree you and I are in Jesus Christ and His Words rule in us, we are "forever." This does not just mean eternal life. It means our lives are indestructible, rooted in that sure foundation, the Rock, Jesus Christ, the Eternal One. Whoever builds his life on his "own understanding," will not stand. Whoever builds his life on Jesus Christ and the "God-Breathed" Word------------------- "stands forever."
Father, in Jesus' Name, "keep back Thy servant from presumptuous sins." Amen.
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Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
