“The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.”
– Isaiah 40:8
As humans, we intensely feel the moment we’re in. We feel its crushing weight, its fears and anxieties, its passions, pleasures, and pains, its highs and its lows. We intensely feel the burden of recent weeks, months, and years.
Scripture reminds us that all these things are temporary. Our greatest achievements and also the horrors of the present will fade away. The empires we build and the indignities we suffer will one day be no more. Pandemics and politics will all pass away.
The Word of God isn’t temporary. The glorious truths of Scripture stand unchanging no matter what changes around us. God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit transcend time. God is sovereign over all things. God’s grace, mercy, love, patience, faithfulness, righteousness, mercy, holiness, and justice have no limits. We too will live forever (whether eternally in God’s presence or eternally separated from God in the Christ-less eternity of Hell). These things are permanent.
We must seek a godly perspective as we’re tempted to be swept up in the passions and crises of the present. The present is important and we must glorify God in the present, but the present is not all there is. Indeed, the present will soon be past. However, God’s Word, God’s truth, and God Himself stand forever. We must invest in forever, represent forever, find our hope in forever, and enjoy the peace that comes from living in the present with a forever perspective!