Who is waiting on us?
In my reading today of Romans I was struck by this question, “Who is waiting on me?”
Romans 8:19 says, “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.”
The more we seek Christ and His Kingdom the more we will be revealing oursleves as the sons of God. The more we reveal ourselves as the sons of God the more creation should be redeemed.
Now, I’m not a tree hugger. I’m not an environmentalist. I will try to always value people over everything else, but I think we miss the point of what it means to be the adopted children of God if creation is not positively impacted by our presence. In fact, I would say that it must be positively impacted by our presence, and Romans 8 seems to reciprocate the revealing of Gods sons with the redemption of creation.
The other thing that struck me is that there are people awaiting the revealing of the sons of God. There is someone we work with that is awaiting God to be revealed through us. There is a family member awaiting anxiously for us to behave as Christ would behave. There is a child, a parent, a guy I play basketball with on Fridays who is awaiting God’s revelation through me.
Is that heavy or what? What a huge responsibility and opportunity. It’s heavy, but it isn’t nearly as heavy as choosing to fail to reveal that we are sons and daughters of God. There are eternal reprocussions for those whom we fail to show a glimpse of God’s glory.
Let’s not fail.
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