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Today's Devotion:
"ALL Creation GROANS"
Lots of discussion happens when disasters
strike.
Insurance companies (who do not ordinarily
acknowledge God) blame God for disasters
so they won't have to pay.
But the REASON for natural disasters is the
SIN of mankind.
God created ORDER;
MAN created CHAOS!
_______SCRIPTURE____________
Rom 8:19-22
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature
waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity,
not willingly, but by reason of him who hath
subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be
delivered from the bondage of corruption into the
glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth
and travaileth in pain together until now.
KJV
_______THOUGHT______________
The word "creature" above is translated from the
Greek word ktisis.
That word can mean creature, creation, or building.
Therefore, it might (in this passage) refer to man,
all creation, or the church.
MAN
The "creature" -- the NEW creation by surrender to
Christ earnestly desires the time he/she will be with
God eternally.
The Christian lives from day-to-day because it is the
will of God for this moment.
But, his/her heart YEARNS for THAT day!
CREATION
The "creature" -- the universe anxiously
looks forward to the day when God will "make all
things new!" (Rev. 21:5)
In fact the universe is groaning under the sinfulness
man has caused.
The creation is "made subject" to suffering by man's
SIN!
CHURCH
The entire "body of Christ" yearns for the
soon return of our Lord Jesus.
ALL are "made subject" to suffering.
But all have been "subjected" to that suffering with
HOPE!
The saved, the universe and the church
AWAIT!
We await anxiously, but we await:
until HE deems the time is perfect in His plan!
Love ya!
Bro. Bruce