Saturday Night Devotions a bit late!!!!

I Peter 1:24-25

     Because “all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.  The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the Lord endures forever.”  Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.  

     Peter continues His discussion from the previous verses pointing us to the power and eternal nature of God’s word.  Without the eternal word of God in us man is like grass.  He springs up quickly and dies quickly.  The “flower” of our lives, our accomplishments and various merits may look good for a while, but soon enough we wither and our successes fall away.  It is only when the word of God dwells in us richly (Colossians 3:16) that we can look forward to accomplishing any truly long term goals.  Without God’s word planted in our lives, the best we can hope for is to make plans that will last us a lifetime – a very short-sighted goal.  True long range planning involves eternity – and to plan well for eternity we must have the word of the Lord in us, the eternal word of the Lord – guiding our decisions, turning us to holiness, and assuring us that Christ’s blood has saved our soul for eternity.  Without the word of the Lord in us we wither and die, let us then “receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls (James 1:21).”