Read: Isaiah 40:1–8
Bible in a Year: 2 Kings 22–23; John 4:31–54
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever. Isaiah 40:8
As a toddler, my son Xavier enjoyed giving me flowers. I
appreciated every freshly picked weed or store-bought blossom he
purchased with his dad. I treasured each gift until it wilted and had to
be thrown away.
One day, Xavier gave me a beautiful bouquet of artificial
flowers. He grinned as he arranged the silk white calla lily, yellow
sunflower, and purple hydrangea in a glass vase. “Look, Mommy,” he said.
“They’ll last forever. That’s how much I love you.”
Since then, my boy has grown into a young
man. Those silk petals have frayed. The colors have faded. Still, the
Forever Flowers remind me of his adoration. And there is something else
it brings to mind—one thing that truly stands forever—the limitless and
lasting love of God, as revealed in His infallible and enduring Word
(Isa. 40:8).
As the Israelites faced continual trials, Isaiah comforted them with
confidence in God’s enduring words (40:1). He proclaimed that God paid
the debt caused by the Israelites’ sin (v. 2), securing their hope in
the coming Messiah (vv. 3–5). They trusted the prophet because his focus
remained on God rather than their circumstances.
In a world filled with uncertainties and affliction, the opinions of
man and even our own feelings are ever-shifting and as limited as our
mortality (vv. 6–7). Still, we can trust God’s unchanging love and
character as revealed through His constant and eternally true Word.
God affirms His love through His dependable and unchanging Word, which endures now and forevermore.
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