God’s Spirit is groaning over the creation that exists in bondage and decay.  And the  Spirit’s groaning is expressed in and through us, as we pray over the broken world with sighs too deep for words. In our weakness, we don’t know what to pray or how to pray, but the Spirit helps us groaning within us over the fractured world. This is one way that God Almighty continues to relate to his Creation as he moves creation towards the goal for which it was always intended. And we participate in his action.

We don’t simply observe the activity of God within his creation. We participate in it.  We are players in the ongoing creation drama. We participate as weak people groaning with the Spirit for the liberation of all things. We do so in the sure hope that Jesus, the new man, will finally liberate the whole of creation by the power of the Spirit.

Creation has a destiny. And the destiny of creation is much more than a return to what it was in the beginning. God made a wonderful world but what he made was ruined. We might now think that Creation’s destiny is that it will be restored to its pristine condition. But shouldn’t we rather say that the destiny towards which all creation is moving will be vastly different from what was first made? Jesus, the new man, will liberate the whole of creation from disease, death, decay and deformity. And he will liberate it to be a new world of light and life and love in communion with the Triune God.  A new world that will be the home of Father, Son and Spirit in communion with us.