Creation is groaning for redemption. All you have to do these days. . . any day in fact. . . is to turn on the news. The Romans 8 groanings of all creation are – if we are paying attention – everywhere and loud. We hear them without and we hear them within.
Yesterday morning I read these words of Scripture in the Seeking God’s Face daily prayer and Scripture reading guide: “I cry aloud to the Lord; I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy. I pour out before him my complaint; before him I tell my trouble” (Psalm 142). “You, Lord, are my lamp; the Lord turns my darkness into light” (2 Samuel 22:29). They are followed by a call to pray “for God’s care and comfort in natural disasters.”
There are parents in Texas who continue to face the unimaginable today. The pictures of Camp Mystic counselors and campers lost in the flooding put faces on the groanings of creation. They represent who knows how many people and communities globally facing great anguish and heartache today. Don’t let them all be out-of-sight-out-of-mind. Let’s be reminded this morning and every morning to pray for God’s grace, mercy, and peace to be showered on all those facing deep darkness.
Thanks be to God for the Redeemer. . . and the hope that is ours in Jesus Christ.