Press

"Creation anticipates with eager excitement the reveal of God's sons," Romans 8:19.

Creation's waiting about what? Well, God had changed everything he originally created to become useless. The creation did not evolve its own futility. Rather, futility got pressed into the cosmos. God forced the world into slavery. He impressed it to decay and rot. But, too, God imprinted hope alongside that futility. Hope - confident expectation of a better tomorrow. (But the better thing isn't here now!) Hope for liberty from decay to thriving life. Creation's freedom, however, comes as a byproduct of something else. Of what? Of the glory of God's children, when on a certain day in the future, they are clearly shown for Whose they are. So, in our present sufferings, we wait, eager yet patient, for that reveal.

We press on today with a brother or sister, confident for the day when God makes our bodies whole. And, already having the first part of the Spirit's promises, we give thanks together to God for making us his children, sure heirs with Christ.