plants and rocks

Job 14:1,2 

"Man who is born of a woman
    is few of days and full of trouble.
2 He comes out like a flower and withers;
    he flees like a shadow and continues not."

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It occurred to me that the beautiful earth I enjoy each day will be here after I am gone.  I seem to think of my life almost as if I've been here forever and will be here forever but it is far truer to say that there are rocks that have been here from the beginning that will be here until earth is no more.

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Scripture likens our human life more to a plant than to a rock.  We spring up and flourish...we start very tiny and full of growth potential.  Then we realize that growth, mature and flower, only to fade and ultimately fall back to earth.  Life in our bodies, and all that can be experienced, owned and controlled here is not to be valued as the lasting thing, as great as the gift of life on earth truly is.

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This temporary quality of living is meant to cause us to look to God.  Consider what the Apostle John had to say:

1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

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There is one beauty of the rock.  There is another beauty of the plant.  But the greatest beauty comes from the One who fashioned both and who conceived of human life, that would have its start among the rocks with the potential to soar in Heaven.

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This life is not to be clung to, but to be thankful for.  May we seek to bloom even as we must fade.

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blessings,

Rob Smith

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"Death is inevitable.  Life is a choice!"

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live."