forever

An angry motorist went back to a garage where he had purchased an expensive battery for his car six months earlier. "Listen," the motorist grumbled to the owner of the garage, "when I bought that battery you said it would be the last battery my car would ever need. It died after only six months!" 

"Sorry," apologized the garage owner. "I didn't think your car would last longer than that."

We live in a day and time when we expect everything to come with a lifetime warranty. We don't want our battery to ever wear out. We don't want our car to ever wear out. And yes, it's even true that we don't want our bodies to wear out. But each and every day we are reminded of what Peter said:

"All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the LORD endures forever." (I Peter 1:24-25)

We live in a world composed of that which is temporary. Nothing which is material will last forever. All will eventually fade. All will eventually pass away. Only that which has its foundation in God and His Word will live on.  

May you live your life so as to be grounded in that which will never be destroyed!

-alan smith