Days as Grass
March 24, 2017
“As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.” – Psalm 103:15
For our season, whatever it may be, we flourish. Then comes the wind and we are gone. Soon, the very memory of our lives fades from the consciousness of our successors and we are thought of no more.
Such a thought might be deemed depressing were it the whole story.
The rest of the story teaches us that from everlasting to everlasting, God’s love is a constant toward us. His covenant people are never forgotten.
It goes on to tell us that God’s throne is never abandoned and that He rules over all.
He it is, according to Psalm 103, who forgives all our sin.
It is He who heals our diseases. Not one of them disappears apart from His wise intervention or creative genius.
He redeems our lives, crowns us love and compassion, satisfies, renews, and administers justice.
How comfortable it would be for us to remain as a grassy flowering meadow, but that is not the way of life. We come and go. Soon we will fade.
Our privilege and responsibility is to bloom in every place we are planted for as long as it is springtime in our lives. It is to be as inwardly beautiful for God as we can be for as many days as we can and to move through the seasons of life with grace and trust.
We may not always be green, but we shall always be loved.