My words shall never pass away

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. – Matthew 24.35

We have often heard the words ‘nothing lasts forever’ and in a general sense that is true. As I look around our sitting room I quickly realise that all of the stuff I see around me will not be around too long. I would guess that most of them will be well gone in a hundred years or so. But eventually it will all be gone.

We live in a land of ancient civilisations. There is a Neolithic stricture at Brú na Bóinne the predates the pyramids of Egypt. There are many castles and other structures that date to the 9th or 10th centuries. We might thing that these things will last forever.

But eventually it will all be gone. Everything, no matter how enduring will one day be God. Jesus put it this way – ‘Heaven and earth will pass away.’

Something however will never pass away. It seems like the thing we would hold important is the thing that is most enduring. So often it is the opposite. We live in a day when we are often so consumed with immediate gratification that we do whatever it takes to get whatever we want as soon as we want it no matter how temporary.

Jesus tells us the one thing that will never pass away is His words. It’s sad we too often approach the eternal things with such a casual and careless attitude. The word of God should be the one thing that consumes us. It should be the one thing that we can’t get through the day without. It ought to be more precious to us than our daily bread, or our daily exercise, or our daily entertainment, or anything else.

Everything that we put so much emphasis on will one day be gone. Doesn’t it make sense that the most eternal thing of all should be A1 on our priority list?