Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Often a famous actor or actress or other world known figure will come to my mind. Sometimes I will even search for them on Internet, reading what is said about them on Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia. And often I find that person to have already died. And I often wonder, "And where is that person now that he is dead? How does all he did on this earth now profit him?" And I rejoice that God spared me from such fame and riches.
This probably explains why James said the following...9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. James 1
In Psalm 37 we read: 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
When a human is at his peak, he spreads himself as much as he possibly can before he goes the way of all flesh. He rises up as grass, just to be cut down. Many "wicked" things are done by those great and talented humans that we admire in the flesh. We may even enjoy their performance and look them up to read about them only to find they are gone ... all their works are over now, never to be redone by them, no new works by them, it is over in the flesh...
They spread themselves while they could, while in power of their fleshly deeds ... now we look for them and can't find them ... it is over.
So it is with all flesh of humans ... 26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. I Cor. 1
I Peter 1 ... 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.