Isaiah 40:6–7: A voice says, “Call out.” Then he answered, “What shall I call out?” All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass. This is how God and the Scriptures view man—not as the great, self-sufficient maker of his own destiny but as similar to the grass of the fields—here today, gone tomorrow. James, the brother of the Lord Jesus, put it this way: “Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a
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