2 Chronicles 3:1-4:22; Ezekiel 28:1-26; John 10:19-42
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Romans 8:22
We usually don’t think of creation in terms of feeling or consciousness, but this passage tells us that creation suffers and groans and is an unwilling slave to bondage. It also earnestly expects and waits for deliverance. Various verses (Ps. 96, 98; Isa. 44:23, 55:12) give us some idea of what that deliverance will look like. Then the heavens will rejoice, the earth will be glad, the mountains, hills, fields and trees will break forth into singing. The floods and trees will clap their hands. —P. W.
Joy to the earth, the Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains,
Repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy. —Isaac Watts