For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.” 1 Peter 1:24
“All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.”Isaiah 40:6
Let’s have a look at ourselves-from head to toe; are we any different from other human beings? If yes in what respect? skin colour, features, height, weight etc give us a separate identity in this world but in substance we are like other human being created in His image. We chase for a name, fame, prosperity and boast of our achievements in this World without realising that our glory will fade like a leaf and the riches and honours of this world which we cloak ourselves with are like the shadow wherein the Light of the Word do not penetrate unless we take off the cloak of falsity and put on the robe of truth and His righteousness.
Charm is deceitful and beauty fades, (Prov 31:30) but we all long for it and chase it all through our lives.
Everything under the Sun is temporal (Eccl:1:14), the men, the beast, the nature, the universe, the heaven and the earth, everything will pass away except His word. (Matt 24:35, Mark 13:31, Luke 21:33)
God of all Flesh, our maker, made everything good as He said in Genesis 1, Everything was just perfect but when the tempter tested the evil of our heart, the visual appeal made us loose the paradise and we, the beloved of our Lord sensed our nakedness before Him. The immortality was taken away and we had to embrace the mortal and fragile flesh. God sees us in our true condition and therefore he calls us flesh which will die like grass.
How should we perceive this world then? Through which lens should we see our lives? Nothing except the Word of God.
“For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life” Galatians 6:8,”
‘Rejoice’ as the word says as while we are flesh He is our God and in the fragility of our flesh, He is the one, who will quicken His spirit.
“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”John 6:63
Inspite of being in the flesh, though the unfailing grace of God brought through the sacrifice of His son Lord Jesus Christ, we are born again not of corruptible but of incorruptible seed (1Peter 2:23).
The Harvest of the Flesh will harvest the souls longing for Him. We, believers in the Lord Jesus, after leaving our mortal bodies, will be with Him till eternity. Let us put on the new man created for His Glory to dispel the darkness of this world and spreading the light of His Word.
When I first ever experience of the fragility of the flesh after loosing my loved ones, I wondered not knowing Christ what for we are in this world? And after coming into His light, the battle is on to go on in this world and shine for His glory.
May we all walk not in the flesh but in the Spirit and do only what is pleasing to our Father in heaven. In Jesus name, Amen
Sol. Neha