Word Won't Wither

Isaiah 40:8 "The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God stands forever."

I was listening to a talk show on the radio this morning, it was a sports show but the hosts were talking about different places to hang out to see celebrities.  I'm not sure how, but the conversation eventually got around to celebrities and plastic surgery.  Isn't it amazing the great cost and pain people will go through to maintain a youthful veneer.  It is a subject that I guess is both funny and sad.  Sad because it is the way of the world....everything fades....we all get old, and funny because there are so many spending huge amounts of money attempting to put off the inevitable.  They hope to appear younger, and yet to me they often look worse after their procedure.  We are living in a world that withers and fades.  There is nothing in all the world that does not break down, or rust, or wilt.  That fresh new outfit you bought will soon lose its newness and freshness.  It will fade and you will buy another new fresh outfit, that will fade.  The new car looses its new car smell and shine.  The child's new toy so quickly gets old.  And yes, our physical beauty fades.  Though we try hard and spend much to slow it down, our flesh like the grass also wanes.  Knowing this ought to ought to bring us all to a place of setting up proper priorities.  Isaiah tells us that in this world everything withers and fades, but only the Word of God stands forever.  Are we spending our best time and energy on that which is temporal and fading, or on that which is eternal and enduring?  Today give your best over to that which stands forever.