This sermon will help you to understand the meaning of all flesh is grass as written in the bible.
Bible verse about all flesh is grass.
Because “all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers and its flower falls away. (1 Peter 1:24)
The meaning of all flesh is grass.
All flesh is grass meaning has its roots in the Bible in 1 Peter 1:24 and it means that human beings, who are referred to as flesh will die someday in the same way the grass withers.
This goes to say that both creatures have a life cycle that eventually comes to a sudden but expected or inevitable end.
The Bible therefore uses the metaphor “all flesh is grass” to draw our attention to the fact that, what happens to the grass in the fields is the same thing that happens to us humans.
As we can all observe, during the rainy season, the flowers will come out and make the grass blossom.
But when it’s dry season, the flowers will fall off and the grass will eventually die.
The flower here is likened to the glory of man which can be interpreted as his physical beauty manifested in good health, wealth, or material things he surrounds himself with.
Now what happens to the flowers is exactly what happens to us human beings. Because, that beauty and wealth as well as the very lives we live here on earth is for a short while and eventually we all die, and they all perish.
Note that the grass lasts but for a season, that is during the rain. And when the dry season comes it is gone.
This then makes its lifespan very short, and so does the human being’s.
For that reason, the next scripture uses vapor as the next metaphor to show how short human life is.
Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. (James 4:14)
Now let me take you to a deeper reality of this scripture.
You will always find out that when the grass withers and dries during the dry season, it will be revived again when the rain comes.
This shows the continuation of the human race. Because when the parents die their children carry their name along.
And sooner or later the children also die for their own children to carry their names along.
Do not fall in love with the world.
Moreover, those who are in love with the world are enemies with God:
Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (James 4:4)
And the preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem; after experiencing all the wealth and pleasures of this life left it with this comment:
“Vanity of vanities,” says the preacher; “vanity of vanities, all is vanity. (Ecclesiastes 1:2)
So, because of the facts above, the scripture advises us:
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it. (1 John 2:15-17)
Proof that death is not the end of life.
Now, the problem most people have in life is that; they believe that once they die everything comes to an end; that they will have no more consciousness of what goes on again on Earth.
But these kinds are foolish because they are blind to the fact that man is made up of two parts:
- The dust of the ground – flesh.
- The breath of life – Spirit of God. As it is written.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being. (Genesis 2:7).
And at the point of death, they both must depart from each other.
Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the Spirit will return to God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
And it is through the Spirit that returns to God that every man will be judged according to what they did – good or evil – while they lived in the flesh.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. (2 Corinthians 5:10).
Knowledge of what happens when we die.
Finally, the scripture helps us to understand that, the knowledge of God and His creational purposes can be perceived in all that He has made:
Because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. (Romans 1:19-20)
Therefore, the knowledge about what happens after we die can be perceived through our dreams.
For instance, you have a dream where you win a very big lottery, and the money is given to you by escorts to help you safely deposit it in a bank.
But on your way to the bank; with the money in a Ghana must-go bag safely sitting on your lap, the alarm clock brings you back to reality, and you sit up on your bed thinking and wishing that the dream was a reality, or there could be a way of dragging the money from that dreamland into this world.
Beloved, as we all know there is no way of bringing whatever you see in the dream into reality; that is the same way it happens when you die and wake up in the world of the dead.
All that you acquired and achieved while alive: your certificates, awards, houses, cars, family, etc, all become useless because you will never be able to take any of them out of this temporary world into that everlasting world.
For this reason, Paul wrote to his god-son Timothy:
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. (1 Timothy 6:7).
And the nursery rhyme goes:
Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
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