Hope {Despite our temporary life}
This world isn’t the way it was originally created to be. In the beginning, it was perfect—exactly how God designed it to be. But then the Fall happened and Adam blessed us with the curse of sin. We now live in a sin-cursed world, with every aspect of our lives marked by the effects of sin in some way or another. “… for we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now…” Because of sin, life is full of groaning: Pain, sadness, tears, disappointments, sickness, death…the list of very real groaning due to sin could go on. And when pain and sadness, suffering and tears, sickness and death make their way into our lives in big ways, it is easy to get bogged down with these things because it is what we see and feel and experience and live. They are our life. These groanings--these horrible consequences due to sin's curse--are what we know, for they are very real and present. Right here. Right now. For “…eve