“... in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.”
Despite the predicament that both mankind and creation is in – being under a curse because of Adam’s sin – there is yet hope. One day the curse will be lifted, we as the children of God will be glorified, and creation will be free once again to glorify God. At the present, creation is in bondage to decay (a phrase which bears resemblance to the second law of thermodynamics: entropy in an isolated system never decreases).
Who is the One that liberates both us into glory and creation into a perfect state without decay? Only Jesus, the promised Messiah. As we read in the previous entry, God deliberately placed a curse on Adam and on creation, and promised the Messiah, as we read here, “in hope”. God had promised Adam that when he sinned against God, he would surely die (Gen. 2:17). Death became a necessity, because it would have been a terrible thing for Adam to live forever in a body corrupted by sin. He would never have been able to enter God’s presence. This is why Jesus was sent – because only He could undo the curse and fully sanctify mankind before God. This is the hope that we have.
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