The Word Stands Forever

[Isa 40:6] The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
[7] The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
[8] The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
All flesh is grass. Isaiah thinks of the beautiful green grass covering the hills of Judah after the winter rains, and how quickly the grass dies and the hills are left brown and barren. This is how frail and weak man is. Even the beauty of man is fleeting, and passes as quickly as spring wildflowers (all its loveliness is like the flower of the field).
Man is in this frail state at the pleasure of G-d. It is to G-d's glory and according to His plan that man is this frail, and the glory of man is so fleeting.
So we ‘seniors’ need to stop complain about the aces and pains that come with old age. Our frail state is for G-d’s glory that we need to now lean on Him more then ever before.
The message is the permanence of G-d and His word - The word of our G-d stands forever. In contrast to the frailty and fleeting glory of man (The grass withers, the flower fades), the word of our G-d endures.
The word of our G-d certainly has endured. It has survived centuries of manual transcription, of persecution, of ever changing philosophies, of all kinds of critics, of neglect both in the pulpit and in the pew, of doubt and disbelief - and still, the word of our G-d stands forever!
Written on material that perishes, having to be copied and recopied for hundreds of years before the invention of the printing press, did not diminish its style, correctness, nor existence. The Bible, compared with other ancient writings, has more manuscript evidence than any ten pieces of classical literature combined.
In 303 A.D., the Roman Emperor Diocletian demanded that every copy of the Scriptures in the Roman Empire be burned. He failed, and 25 years later, the Roman Emperor Constantine commissioned a scholar named Eusebius to prepare 50 copies of the Bible at government expense.
Infidels for eighteen hundred years have been refuting and overthrowing this book, and yet it stands today solid as a rock. Its circulation increases, and it is more love and cherished and read today than ever before. Infidels, with all their assaults, make about as much impression on this book as a man with a tack hammer would on the Pyramids of Egypt. When the French monarch proposed a persecution of the Believers in his dominion, an old statesman and warrior said to him, 'Sire, the Messianic Church of G-d is an anvil that has worn out many hammers.' So the hammers of the infidels have been pecking away at this book for ages, but the hammers are worn out, and the anvil still endures. If this book had not been the book of G-d, men would have destroyed it long ago. Emperors and popes, kings and priests, princes and rulers have all tried their hand at it; they die and book still lives."
A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral
procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.
The understanding of our frailty and fleeting glory, contrasted with the eternal enduring of G-d and His Word, should humble us in repentance before Him.
Peter using the passage from Isaiah 40, he says why we should love one another this way: having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of
G-d which lives and abides forever, because "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass, as the grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of G-d endures forever. Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you. (1 Peter 1:23-25).
Peter also makes a beautiful application. Since this eternal, always potentially fruit-bearing seed is in us, we have both the obligation and the ability to have a sincere love of the brethren. Perhaps we could say that if we give more love to others, it begins with having more of the incorruptible seed set in our hearts and allowed to grow.