Like Grass ...

Monday, Feb 11, 2019. Last summer was quite dry in Europe. We had three months of high temperatures and nearly no rain in the center of the continent. All meadows became yellow-ish. The grass withered, with a lot of consequences which you can still see today, after half a year.

The bible compares human life with grass and flowers. They look green now, but they might wither tomorrow. They look pretty for some days, but then they are gone. What is lasting? What is it that has a future? The fugacity of life is well known to all of us, though we might ignore it for most of our life.

Fugacity …

But the bible wants us to look into reality, to become aware of the true framework of our life. Let us look into the New Testament to learn more about this. For today, the original passage from 1 Peter reads as follows:

24 For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, 25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.”3 And this is the word that was preached to you. (from 1 Peter 1)

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