Verse of the Day 6/10

 Isaiah 40:8 (ESV) The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

 

My wife Jean and I enjoy going for walks in our neighborhood.  It is now June, the Crepe Myrtles are in full bloom, this week the first daisies blossomed in our yard and the lawns in the neighborhood are nice and green.  We enjoy it now because we know that it won't last forever.  The summer heat of July and August will come and many of the lawns will turn brown and dormant.  Daisies and crepe Myrtles blossom for a long time but some time this fall, their flowers will fade and the petals will drop off.

 

Thankfully, it is not so with God's Word.  It will stand, blossom, bloom and produce fruit in all seasons, forever.

 

The last books that were added to the Sacred Canon are approaching 2000 years old, yet they are mighty in power to save and produce fruit in us as they were 2000 years ago.

 

Arthur Pink writes, "The Bible never becomes antiquated, its vitality never diminishes and its influence is more irresistible and universal today than it was two thousands of years ago.  Such facts as these declare with no uncertain voice that the Bible is endued with the same Divine life and energy of its Author, for in no other way can we account for its marvelous influence through the centuries and its mighty power in the world."

 

Have you been in a dry season?  Return to the Lord, return to His Word.  May it blossom again in your life.

 

In Christ,
Mike

 

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Isaiah 40:6-8 (ESV) The Word of God Stands Forever

 

6 A voice says, "Cry!"
    And I said, "What shall I cry?"
All flesh is grass,
    and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades
    when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
    surely the people are grass.
8  The grass withers, the flower fades,
    but the word of our God will stand forever.