50 Days of Wisdom

Romans 8:22-23 says, "For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves." Then in verse 26, "In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words." One word jumps out at you when reading these verses, and it's the word "groan." There's a lot of groaning going on. Creation is groaning, we who have the first fruits of the Spirit are groaning, and the Holy Spirit is groaning. This indicates that the creation and us and the Holy Spirit are going through certain groanings, certain agonies, until the final realization of glory. That's the whole point of this passage. And all of those groanings are some indication of an unfulfilled reality. All of creation feels the unfulfillment. Believers feel the unfulfillment. Even the blessed Holy Spirit experiences this unfulfillment. So why the groaning? A specific event in history caused everything to transition from being purposeful and perfect to becoming purposeless and futile. Everything became subjected to decay, corruption, frustration, death, and destruction. And who or what was it that did that? Evolution? No, God did it. When Adam and Eve sinned, a deadly plague descended upon them, one so infectious that no human being who has ever walked on this planet will escape it. A plague that is so contagious that no one can avoid it. It's like living in the midst of a city that had been hit by the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. The plague not only infected the people but also permeated their surroundings. The plague not only infected the man lying in the bed in the house, but it was also present throughout every part of the house, and it spread to the street, the city, and the countryside, leaving no escape as the environment succumbed to corruption. So it was when Adam sinned; the plague was everywhere on the planet, and it continues to this day. Decay, disaster, pollution, disruption, and degeneration are not the result of some evolutionary fluke or bad mutation. Things are the way they are in the world because God cursed this entire creation. He cursed it so that man is left to face every waking moment of his life with the deadly, destructive, corrupting realities of sin. Therefore, nature's destiny is inseparably linked to man's because man sinned and fell into a corrupt condition, and his domain is now in bondage to that same corruption. Environmentalists aren't going to reverse or mitigate that. Nice try, but it won't work. Solar energy won't do it. Eliminating carbon footprints is not going to do it. Getting rid of fossil fuels isn't going to do it. Education isn't going to do it. Why? Because this is a divine curse. We're not on an upward trend as evolutionists suggest; we're on the way down from perfection. Listen: We're on the way down from perfection to total destruction, and there's no stopping point. The biblical worldview is that when man sinned, he was punished by losing purity and the benefits of a perfect environment as king of the earth due to his choice of sin. Man is now a king who lost his crown and is trying to rule over an unruly, corrupt, decaying, and deadly creation. Why? Because God cursed his entire environment. All because of sin. Repent and believe! GTY.org (90-424) – Hope That Transcends the Groaning

Today's Wisdom

Day: 1024

September 9, 2026

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