All Creation Groans Series
Can you hear the sound?
The sound of groaning
All Creation is groaning
Suffering
I consider that our present sufferings... Romans 8:18
Frustration
For the creation was subjected to frustration… Romans 8:20
Pain
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Romans 8:22
Turn frustration into hope
All creation is waiting for you, and so is God
What changes do you need to make today to become the “...Freedom and glory of the children of God”
Frustration to Hope
Romans 8:20
The curse in Genesis 3 upon Satan, Eve and Adam…
Describe the frustration upon creation
because of disobedience.
Life’s achievements from the time of Genesis 3
would come with frustration.
Adam and Eve’s eyes were opened
when they ate and disobeyed God.
To the pure, all things are pure;
but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure.
Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
Titus 1:15
They saw not only that they were naked…
But they saw good and evil.
This did not make them wiser…
But opened their minds to new desires and shame.
God created Adam and Eve with the ability
to enjoy the physical pleasures…
Like eating.
The writing of nutrition books and diets,
there is no end,
I believe before the fall,
Adam and Eve only knew the joys
of God’s design for food.
Imagine only having cravings
for what is healthy.
Because of our fleshly cravings,
we have a hard time discerning
proper nutritional health.
It is frustrating to get on the scale
after eating too much chocolate.
Our fleshly desires bring not only frustration
on ourselves, but all of creation…
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.
Romans 8:20-21
The hope for frustration is…
freedom and glory of the Children of God…
God’s people with pure minds and hearts.
Frustration comes when…
We think godliness is a way of gain…
…Men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth.
These men regard godliness as a means of gain.
Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Timothy 6:5, 6
The answer for frustration is hope.
We all look forward to the coming
of Christ and our glorified bodies.
But what if the answer to our prayer
“Thy Kingdom come they will be done
in earth as it is in heaven”
means…
“...Freedom and glory of the children of God” NOW?
Adam and Eve could eat from
all the trees except “One”.
What if we enjoyed the freedoms of all God
made for us and stayed away from the…
“One”?
What if we focused on being
God’s Children of “Glory”?...
You and I doing the things that are honorable,
and praise worthy.
We lived with an appearance commanding
respect, excellence, and magnificence.
What if we did not wait to change until
we get to heaven and changed now?
Jesus did not take His followers up into heaven
when He ascended for a reason.
He left them here to continue to change
the world by making disciples.
A disciple is a disciplined learner.
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A disciplined learner does not live in frustration…
But in hope of the knowledge
learned from the Teacher, God.
All creation is waiting for you,
and so is God.
What changes do you need to make today
to become the…
“...Freedom and glory of the children of God”
Turn your frustration into hope.
Scripture Reading
Romans 8:20-21
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.
