Daily Worship

Creation Waits

Jim Campbell July 01, 2014 0 0

Romans 8: 18-25

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.  For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

Creation waits, Lord.
For what ?
Creation waits for the great exodus
For the great deliverance from futility  - 
From meaninglessness and its bondage to decay.
“Meaningless ! Meaningless ! 
It’s all meaningless !”
(So said the Preacher in Ecclesiastes.)
So life seems to many,
And if I am honest,
So it often seems to me:
The random tragedy
The choreographed cruelty
The arrogant  injustice.
 Yet, you declare that we are in mid-story,
We are not there yet,
What we are now
Is not what we shall be.
Yet, in the Risen Jesus,
We see the future of all creation.
May that future
Truly grab hold of us now..
And truly lead us on. Amen.

 

Jim Campbell, Ceres, Kemback and Springfield Church