DCLM Higher Everyday 9 August 2025 — Mere Grass?

Topic: Mere Grass?

Text: Isaiah 40:1-8

1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.

3The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

5And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

6The 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:

7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Key Verse: “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” (Isaiah 40:6). 

Message

The Bible uses various metaphors and symbols to describe the brevity and frailty of human life. It is described as ‘a shadow that passes away’ (1 Chronicles 29:15), ‘water spilt on the ground’ (2 Samuel 14:14), ‘a wind that passeth away’ (Psalm 78:39), ‘swifter than a weaver’s shuttle’ (Job 7:6), and ‘a vapour that vanisheth away’ (James 4:14). Our text today compares human life as ‘grass that withers’ and ‘flower that fades’. Man’s life is short and fragile. It soon passes away.

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The implications of these scriptures are all around us. People are dying daily and passing into eternity. The young and the old, the rich and the poor, the educated and the illiterate, none is beyond the reach of the cold hands of death. Since the fall of man and the entrance of sin into the world, we must walk in the shadow of death from the day we are born.  Man must return to the dust from which he was made. We must therefore number our days and apply our hearts to wisdom. Beloved, make peace with God and secure your place in His kingdom.

Quote: Make peace with God 

Challenge: Man’s life is short and fragile. 

Prayer for today: O God, teach me to number my days. 

GOSPEL REALM: STEPS TO SALVATION
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)