Marketplace Moments

Marketplace Moments are a collection of vignettes by Needle's Eye Executive Director Buddy Childress. They are reflections on marketplace ethics and issues from a Christian perspective.

All Marketplace Moment devotionals are listed as separate links on the right side of the screen.

Newness of Life

Isaiah 40:8

As we move into the beauty of springtime, anticipating warmer weather and clear skies, the memory of beautiful flowers and foliage enlivens our minds. Thoughts of God’s creation flourish as we smell the initial sweet scents of spring and witness life leap from darkness.

However, deep down we know that spring will ultimately lead to winter, light will turn into darkness, life into death. Therefore, in order to realize on-going “newness of life,” we must understand that:

The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God stands forever.

May God help us to remember and live what the Old Testament prophet Isaiah knew to be true.