All Creation Groans

It’s Not Just You

New Living Translation Chapter 8

18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. 19 For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. 20 Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, 21 the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. 22 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. 24 We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. 25 But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)

Right now we may be experiencing all kinds of challenges and suffering. But it’s not just us.

All Creation is groaning as in birth pains

God created everything good, very good. The way it was meant to be. A veritable paradise. He placed the first man and woman in the Garden, gave them everything they ever needed. They could go anywhere in the Garden and eat anything in the garden except from one tree, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. However the serpent deceived them, tempted them with half truths, that God was holding out on them. That they could be like God if they just ate the forbidden fruit, which of course they did. And ever since then they, along with all of creation have felt the pain of every since.

Jesus delivers us from this Fallen world, but we will not experience complete freedom until His return

Our hope is not in this present world, but in the world to come.