1 Peter 1:24-25 says, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever”. In the past, I have always focused on the “nothing lasts forever” part of this scripture. People come and people go. We get a job, make some money, then something changes, and we are looking for work again. Children are born and, in a blink of an eye, they are out of the house, married and have children of their own. The stock market goes up and down. When teaching this passage, I would always encourage people to be adaptable, because the only constant is change. There is one major problem with this approach, though, and that is that I overlooked the last line. I treated the part that says, “the word of the Lord endures forever” as if it was just a nice way to end the sentence. However, that line is not a throwaway, it is the entire poi