All Creation Growns

From time to time, the worlds events just get to me. Some day i just want to wake up and turn on the news and not find murder, war, death, abuse, sickness and famine. I wish we could just live in peace. As a christian, i know that this cannot happen. So i find my hope not in world peace, or cures for cancer or utopias or even hip new politicians and old cotton topped ones, but in God.

I found rest in the knowledge that when i turn on the tv and find all these horrific things that it only leads me closer to God and only deepens my hope and longing for Him. Since the fall and until Christ comes back there will always be horrible things (matthew 24) and no matter how educated or political or worldly or how much we want peace it will never come, how arrogant is it for us to think that we can fix our present situation. it doesn't mean we don't try, as christians we are called to love and suffer for everyone, but a finite man cannot resolve eternal problems. ONLY God can bring peace through the restoration of man with himself and the final eternal destruction of sin and evil (just read Revelations). If you say that we can make peace permanent and that if we can just get this person elected or just cure this disease then things will be right and if you put your trust and hope in man you will be disappointed! The writers of the NT constantly urge and command us to put our hope in things ETERNAL, because this world is broken, and it will fail you, and if you say that it hasn't failed you then please, leave your bedroom and go outside.

When a woman gives birth she goes through immense pain. Why? When the child comes out of the womb it comes screaming and crying, why? Or have you ever heard a coyote howl? Romans 8 tells us that all creation groans, and we groan inwardly, so when you understand that, then birth pains, babies crying and coyotes howling start to have a much deeper meaning. It is all a groan that says we were not meant for this world, and that until it is restored we will find suffering the norm. So i look to Christ for my hope. My faith is in him. You cannot have faith in Christ without hope in our redemption by him.

Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Romans 8
"22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
2Co 4:17 - Show Context
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
2Co 4:18 - Show Context
as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2Co 5:1 - Show Context
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Col 3:1 - Show Context
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God
1Pe 5:10 - Show Context
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

Man cannot save man, if they could we would not need God. We cannot fix ourselves. My hope is in peace not yet seen, in a restoration not yet realized, and a joy not yet fully understood.

this song just resonates with me...