FLOWERS FADE
1Peter [ESV] 1:13-25 Therefore, preparing your minds
for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will
be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children
[Jn.1:12], do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance [Rom.12:1-3],
but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since
it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” And if you call on him
as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct
yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you
were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with
perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of
Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown
before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for
the sake of you
who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
I dug up my
beautiful miniature rosebushes and took them to my new apartment and set them
out.
I’ll have to make
several trips, 40 miles each way, to tend and water them as I don’t know when
the new apartment will be ready for me to move in.
As I dug and
replanted I knew some would die and I thought of Isaiah 40:6-8.
How thankful I am
that God’s Word never fades, dies, or changes!
Leslie Nivens (12/12/1928 –
3/1/2020)
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