Peter contrasts two kinds of life, and he reminds us that we have been given both. The first is a perishable life that we all know quite well. It is the life that is filled with good and beautiful things, much like the grass and the flowers of the field are good and beautiful for a time; but as the author says, one day they will wither and fall. As he puts it, this is the life made from “perishable seed.” But there is a second kind for those in Christ, a life made from “imperishable seed,” a life formed from the enduring word of God. The questions we must ask are, which of these lives will we invest in? Which will dictate our larger life choices? Are we living for that which perishes, or are we living for the eternal and the enduring?