This world will fade away...

But your word remains FOREVER Jesus, we will shout your praise!

1 Peter 1:23-25 (New International Version)

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For,
"All men are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
²⁵but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you.

Thought of this verse tonight when I was lifting weights. I am so convicted on how much I love to keep my body strong and how weak I feel when I don't work out. Took 3 days off lifting cause of various reasons, laziness, Halloween, blah blah blah. Came back and curling that 100 pounds that was super easy a week ago was terrible. And you know these are things that guys look at, oh crud lost some muscle tone, can't do as much weight.

I am just amazed this scripture verse because the world we live in is so temporal. Our bodies, our present lives, our statuses, and personal glory will all fade away.

Matthew 16:25-27 (New International Version)

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Michael Jackson had the world, millions of fans idolizing and basking in his glory. He even baptized his cast in his "glory." In the end he died a lonely death, and no one took the time to share the Gospel with him. What good is it for him now? He gained the entire world and gave up his soul.

God let me strive after You, not my glory, not my status or abilities, because all these will fade away. My short life is but a mist, here one moment and gone another.