Your Monday dose of Charles Spurgeon: Faith's Checkbook for August 31

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for

   "All flesh is like grass
   and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
   and the flower falls,
but the word of the Lord remains forever."

And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

via www.biblegateway.com

Spurgeon only quotes the last verse, "...but the word of the Lord remains forever. And this word is the good news that was preached to you" and then adds:

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All human teaching and, indeed, all human beings shall pass away as the grass of the meadow; but we are here assured that the Word of the LORD is of a very different character, for it shall endure forever. We have here a divine gospel; for what word can endure forever but that which is spoken by the eternal God? We have here an ever-living gospel, as full of vitality as when it first came from the lips of God; as strong to convince and convert, to regenerate and console, to sustain and sanctify as ever it was in its first days of wonder-working. We have an unchanging gospel which is not today green grass and tomorrow dry hay but always the abiding truth of the immutable Jehovah. Opinions alter, but truth certified by God can no more change than the God who uttered it. Here, then, we have a gospel to rejoice in, a word of the LORD upon which we may lean all our weight. "For ever" includes life, death, judgment, and eternity. Glory be to God in Christ Jesus for everlasting consolation. Feed on the word today and all the days of thy life. (via CrossWalk)

Indeed. The Word of God does last forever, and it will not return to Him void. It will accomplish what He means it to do, and none can gainsay its power and effectiveness. It reveals that the wisdom of man is still absurdity compared to the wisdom of God.

Let unsaved men rail against God. Let them try to deny Him. Let them ignore the truth of His existence and who He is witnessed by Creation itself. Let them shake their fists in His face...

... at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:10-11)

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. (Galatians 6:7-8)

Let them.

One Day, God will mete out His perfect justice, and they will stand mute before Him.

His Word - the written word and the Living Word - will prevail.