Our Scripture reading today is Isaiah 40:6-8.
Verse 8, "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever."
What the prophet Isaiah wrote thousands of years ago was true then and it is still true today. God's Word is just as powerful today as it was when the Holy Spirit inspired the authors to write it. There have been and always will be critics who think they know more than God. "Voltaire, the French skeptic and infidel who died in 1778, said that 100 years from his time, Christianity would be swept from existence and passed into history, and that the Bible would be a forgotten book. Many years after Voltaire’s death, the Geneva Bible Society used his press and his house to produce stacks of Bibles."
While we might acknowledge the power of God's Word. The question is, Are we allowing the Word of God to direct our daily life? Are we obeying what the Scriptures tell us to do. Yes, God's Word will stand forever. That is not going to change. Far too many Christians are not allowing the Bible to change them. Far too many Christians carry their Bibles to church but do not let their Bible carry them in their day to day living. We need to agree with the Psalmist who wrote in Psalm 119:105, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." The Word of God will stand and it will also faithfully lead us on the path God has for us.