The most beautiful things on the planet are not lasting, like a flower, and Peter the Apostle of Jesus Christ was onto this. He was not the first to have seen this surprising fact.

Here is Job saying. “Like a flower he comes forth and withers. He also flees like a shadow and does not remain. (Job 14:2)

Here’s the famous songwriter David singing it.  As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. (Psalms 103:15)

Here is the prophet Isaiah making the glory of men like a flower.  Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile valley Of those who are overcome with wine! (Isaiah 28:1)

Where is James, a contemporary of peter, saying the same thing. and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away. (James 1:10)

Pretty flowers, attractive humans, amazing cities and high-priced purchases kick the bucket. So what is really important in life? God’s word, and for most spiritual seekers that means secret writings that have been treated as reliable for Millenia.

For, “All flesh is like grass, And all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, And the flower falls off, (1 Peter 1:24)

What are you going to do without God’s word.  That is like a baby surviving without mother’s milk.