| For, “All people 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 endures forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you. |
| —1 Peter 1:24-25 |
A phenomenon has risen to the forefront over the last few years that has caught many people by surprise. On some Internet social media site, someone posts a hurtful photograph or a hurtful paragraph. No matter what the hurt person does, that photograph or paragraph persists.
The hurtful photo or paragraph takes on a life of its own. Once it is deleted from one location, it pops up at some other location. Some photos and paragraphs even “go viral” and thousands of people re-post them until tens of thousands of instances of the photo or paragraph exists somewhere on the Internet.
If the entire Internet crashed, and every server failed, and every storage device catastrophically failed, only then would the photo or paragraph cease to exist. And then, that would depend on whether or not someone had downloaded and archived the content to a private storage device from which it could be resurrected. Still, under the most unusual of conditions, the photo or paragraph could eventually be eradicated.
In contrast, God’s written Word has a permanence that exceeds our ability to comprehend. Nothing can stop God’s written Word from persisting.
Many have tried over the last 2,000 years to destroy God’s written Word, the Bible. But, God will always preserve His written Word. He will guard His truth.
God gave His written Word to humankind for their benefit. He will not allow anyone or anything to prevent men, women, boys, and girls from reading, studying, meditating on, or hearing His written Word.
The Apostle Peter makes certain the early Christians knew this, when he wrote these words in 1 Peter 1:24-25:
For, “All people 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 endures forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you.
We can begin this new day with thanksgiving that God’s written Word will endure. We will have it available to us to lead us and guide us along the pathway that God has prepared for us.
We can hide God’s written Word in our hearts and minds, and no one can take it away from us. This day, that’s certainly a reason to rejoice.
Based on a blog originally posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2017
