{"id":175,"date":"2009-01-22T01:32:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T05:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/?p=175"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:39:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:39:35","slug":"fleeting-body-enduring-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Fleeting Body, Enduring Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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fleet\u00b7ing, adj.
passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I’m 55. I used to think that was really, really old, like back when I was a teenager. Now I look back and think, wow. Here I am-old. The people that I thought were old, like my mom, are now really, really, really old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s all relative, isn’t it. I guess when you are 5 or 6 you might think that a teenager is old. I don’t know; I’m too old to remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a lot of favorite verses in God’s Word.\u00a0 They are an enduring encouragement to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Isaiah 40:8 and 1 Peter 1:24-25, we see this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The grass withers and the flowers fall,
\nbut the word of our God stands forever.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I think that is what I’d like this written on my tombstone. I will live forever based on the promises in God’s Word. But my body will wither and fall. I want anyone seeing my tombstone to know what is important and what is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m tired. My constant pain is very much like a thorn in the flesh to me.\u00a0 I have to live life in spite of it. (I couldn’t begin to express how difficult it is to do so.) I really want to go home to Heaven. It is certainly better by far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though I have constant pain I also have God’s enduring grace. It empowers me to take the next step even while in pain. Without God’s grace, there would be no power and no hope. Praise God for His moment by moment provision!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maranatha! Lord Jesus, come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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