When something is transient, it is not permanent.
It comes, it goes. It has no roots or underpinnings. We understand it to be a variable thing. Life, while it is being lived, is a transient thing. You could have been born in a certain house and live there all your life, yet that seeming permanency still does not alter the fact that from day to day life is a transient experience. The Bible teaches us that we are “foreigners and strangers” on the earth. Life is like that of the nomad, moving about from place to place and living in a tent. We are not here to stay because our permanent home will be in Heaven with the Lord. And so being transient for the moment is a reminder of a better place yet to come.