Daily Devotional, Year 3 – December 21 (As The Flower of the Field, Part 13: “Forever Young?”)
By admin On February 17th, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 3 – December 21
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As The Flower of the Field,
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Part 13:
“Forever Young?”
To read Part 1, click here… “March 19th (As the Flower of the Field!)”
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Back in 1979, a very nice song was recorded entitled, “Forever Young”.
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And it sang about God, and it praised the virtues of doing what is right in daily life and wished for the fulfillment of our earthly dreams.
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But the song’s big centerpiece was to desire for the listener to be “forever young!”
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Very nice sentiments!
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Bob Dylan – Wikipedia – Public Domain
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WE’VE ALL GROWN OLDER NOW
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But alas, time does not stop!
And life’s passenger train just keeps rolling down the tracks of time, never slowing down (only speeding up) on its way to the final station.
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Most of that song’s original fans are now well into their 70’s or 80’s, although many have no doubt passed away.
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But the sad truth is that none of us have stayed forever young!
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Train locomotive – Hans Baluschek Anfahrender Schnellzug – 1909 – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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“THE GRASS WITHERS, AND THE FLOWER THEREOF FALLS AWAY”
1st Peter 1:24
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Now maybe one might say that being “young in heart” is a fulfillment of what it means to be “forever young”. 
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But even being young-at-heart is only a temporary situation!
Because we all must eventually die.
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No, Isaiah 40:6-8 says it very poetically…
“All flesh is grass,
and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it:
surely the people is grass.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
but the Word of our God shall stand for ever.”
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Here is the fate of all humans. Forever in Sheol (Hebrew for: “the grave”)!
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Child & Dandelion – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away”
Psalm 90:10
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Yes, human life is like the grass, and our beauty is like the fading flower of the field.
We begin with so much life and vitality.
And we flourish for about twenty years.
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But then, like that flower of the field, we begin to slowly wither away!
By thirty a few petals have fallen away.
By forty a few more.
And by fifty, the petals begin to fall away with increasing rapidity!
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And should we live well into our eighties or even into our nineties, we lose most all of our beauty!
Our backs bow down.
Our skin wrinkles.
Many loved ones have died.
And we hurt in so many ways!
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And try as we may to hold on to our youthful vitality, it slips away like a thief in the dark shadows of the night!
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Woman applying make-up – Wikimedia – Share-alike License 2.0
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“GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY!”
Proverbs 25:25
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But the Good News in all this is that Jesus Christ has actually provided a way of escape from our appointed and certain doom!
That’s right! He bore the sins of many on that cruel Cross of Calvary!
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And for all those who do take hold of Salvation, there will be no end…“And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die! Believest thou this? ” John 11:26
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These are the very words which Jesus spoke!
And He speaks these same words to each of us today!
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Sign of the Son of Man Constellation – made of the various constellations on this website
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“THOSE WHO SLEEP IN JESUS WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM!”
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Oh yes, our fallen mortal bodies will wither away and perish.
And we will lie in our graves for a short time.
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But the great and precious promise is this…
“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so them also which sleep in Jesus
will God bring with Him.”
1st Thessalonians 4:14
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Yes, in a blink of the eye, God will one day, very soon, raise us up, and bring us to be with Him, to live together forever in that wonderful Promised Land that awaits us!
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And there we will be forever happy!
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And there we will truly be FOREVER YOUNG!
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TO READ PART 14, CLICK HERE…
December 23 (As The Flower of the Field, Part 14: “There Ain’t No Mountain High Enough?”)
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Wikipedia – Fair-Use Rationale
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to fully realize the meaninglessness of this life and to fully appreciate the infinite value of the world-to-come…
Prayer – Mother and Daughter – Wikipedia – (cropped image) the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read…“October 26th (It’s a throw-away world!)”,
or you can also read this next article…“April 22nd (All Is Meaningless!)”
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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THE FLOWER OF THE FIELD CONSTELLATION
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This is perhaps one of the most amazing constellations that God has created!
It truly looks like a flower, and appears to be blowing in the direction of westward.
But as autumn draws near, this constellation appears to bow itself down, just like the flowers of Earth bow down, at the summer’s end.
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And these are not merely obscure stars! No!
These are among the biggest and brightest stars in the night heavens!
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The Two Turtle-Doves Constellation is also known as Sagittarius .
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The Flower of the Field is commonly known as Scorpio .
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But there is another obvious aspect to this constellation group.
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Flower of the Field Constellation”
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TOMORROW…
December 22 (A 3-Fingered Judgment-Day, Part 6: “I Was…Naked, and Ye Clothed Me:”
Good Samaritan – (Watts) – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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90-MINUTE OPEN FORUM
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ALL‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) ARE ENCOURAGED TO LISTEN TO THIS DEBATE REGARDING WHETHER THE CHURCH-AGE HAS ENDED.
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN…The Open Forum Harold Camping April 2, 2003
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ABOVE PICTURE: Holy Bible – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Lic.