Creation is Waiting for You

"For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God." (Romans 8: 19)

Notice that we are no longer creatures, but now sons of God.

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5: 17)

Before we can appreciate this verse in its fullest, therefore, we must recognize that we are not creatures but children.

The previous verses in Romans 8 spell out this wonderful rebirth:

"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." (Romans 8: 15)

We are not just children, but full-grown sons before God our Father:

"23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3: 23-26)

Now, why does the creature wait for our manifestation?

Because God originally intended for man to have dominion over the earth:

"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." (Genesis 1: 28)

Creation wants us to have dominion over the evil in this world, too:

"Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling." (Psalm 49: 14)

In Christ, we are made upright:

"For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit." (1 Peter 3: 18)

and

"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." (Romans 8: 37)

In Christ, we receive His dominion over all things, too, greater than Adam:

"19And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." (Ephesians 1: 19-23)

Followed by:

"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:" (Ephesians 2: 4-6)

Creation is waiting for you today, Beloved, to accept and act on your new identity in Christ, that you are a child of God, and that as Christ is, so are you today in this world!