24 For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass.The grass withers and the flower falls,25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.” That word is the good news that was announced to you. 1 Peter 1:24, 25
The quotation from Isaiah 40:6-8 signifies the reality and state of the temporariness and swiftness of this life. All the beauty, fame and glory are but for a season and they wither away so quickly. The only ‘imperishable’ and ‘enduring’ Word that brings us to life will stand through the end of the age.
There is something about God's word that exceeds above any other literatures or for that matter, even the creation itself. God's word reminds us that God is eternal and has not beginning and end (Rev. 1:8). In the time of Jeremiah, King Jehoiakim burned the scrolls. The scrolls was a prediction of Jerusalem's destruction and captivity by the Babylonians. The message warns the people of Judah to turn away from their sins and idolatry but instead of responding to the warning with fear and repentance, the King burned the Scroll. In Jeremiah 36:28, God orders Jeremiah to take another scroll and write the decree of the Lord again. It was a painful moment for the Prophet to rewrite the whole commands of God. But he obeyed.
Nearly after some years, the prediction came to fulfillment. Jerusalem was besieged, ravaged and destroyed by the Babylonians. God's word came to pass. The very words that Jeremiah wrote, we now have it in this 21st century. This proves that the word of God is binding and eternal.
The one who relies and trusts this word (the Bible) will live to see the kingdom of God established on earth but the one who rejects this book will not see life.
