The Grass Withers, the Flower Fades

I've been learning a lot about the past generations in my family. In fact, last month, my husband and I were able to visit Armel Cemetery in NE Colorado where my great-grandparents are buried. Still used and cared for, this small rural cemetery is surrounded by farmland, appropriate as my great-grandparents were homesteaders.

 

There's nothing like visiting a cemetery to take you outside your own "today" world. It gives you pause to think.

 

Life for us in this land of the living is brief. Isaiah wrote "All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people are grass." (40:6b-7 NKJ)

 

That is why Psalm 90:12 tells us to number our days. The Contemporary English Version puts it, "Teach us to use wisely all the time we have." Moses, the writer of this Psalm, explains this is because our lives are "soon cut off, and we fly away." (90:10 NKJ)

 

The reality is we only have one day—today. And praying moms, that means that every morning we wake up with only "today" to impact our children's lives. There is no guarantee of tomorrow. So, what we do today effects eternity.

 

Michael Youssef wrote, "Parents, you have incredible power through prayer to impact future generations. If you look down through history, every great man or woman of God—like Saint Augustine or the Wesley brothers—had someone praying for them."

 

As I stood beside that grave stone, I wondered about the lives of those who are buried there. Had they been praying for the future generations of our family? Are their voices echoing still today in the ear of the Living God? Does He see us through their prayers?

 

 

"The end of the world is coming soon. Therefore, be earnest and disciplined in your prayers."

1 Peter 4:7