Creation's Groans

So I was driving home today, it was about 7:45pm and I got to this spot on a hill that on a clear day you can see Mt. Washington from. The evening sky was breathtaking. It was firey orange faded into peach which faded into a deep clear blue, and it made me gasp. I thought to myself "this is the kind of beauty that could sustain me for years", while I now I'm much too needy and ungrateful to actually believe that it was an interesting thought, and it led me to another one. Why are we given such beauty? It's amazing to me and it's all about grace. The definition of grace is being given something that you do not and can not deserve, like a beautiful sunset. It may seem insignificant to some but to others beauty in nature awakens something in their spirit. This whole progression of thought brought me to Romans 8 and 2 specific passages; verses 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." Holy crap! That's what I say about this. It's already mindblowingly beautiful already and we're told creation is frustrated and in bondage to decay so when it is liberated from said bondage how much more amazing will it be? It's too much to think about. The next verse says; "We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time." Nature is under the curse too. It doesn't commonly occur to me that this is so but it is and it is suffering just as we too are groaning. It was just another reason to be thankful.



Blessings,
~Jenna