May 2017
We're all born screaming
While screams echo back
And one day we learn
To hold our screams in check
But the world keeps on screaming
Its groans ignore our reluctance
Tearing through our dreams
Persistently confronting us
The only source of peace for us
Are Jesus' gentle whispers
They serve as a quiet respite
For those who are able to listen
And soon the whispers clarify
The groans from the world around
These aren't cries of anger
But pleas to be unbound
Creation itself cries out
For rescue by its maker
To be allowed to at last fulfil
The purpose it was made for
And so our eyes are opened
To the reason for our screams
We cry with all creation
For a full and final release
And Jesus hears our cries
He's not deaf to our prayers
He'll come again in his glory
With earthshaking fanfares
Our cries will turn to song
Secure in a brand new earth
Creator and creation in harmony
Echoing glad cries of new birth
So a new born baby's screams
Shouldn't come as any surprise
They are simply giving echo
To creation's longing sighs.
While screams echo back
And one day we learn
To hold our screams in check
But the world keeps on screaming
Its groans ignore our reluctance
Tearing through our dreams
Persistently confronting us
The only source of peace for us
Are Jesus' gentle whispers
They serve as a quiet respite
For those who are able to listen
And soon the whispers clarify
The groans from the world around
These aren't cries of anger
But pleas to be unbound
Creation itself cries out
For rescue by its maker
To be allowed to at last fulfil
The purpose it was made for
And so our eyes are opened
To the reason for our screams
We cry with all creation
For a full and final release
And Jesus hears our cries
He's not deaf to our prayers
He'll come again in his glory
With earthshaking fanfares
Our cries will turn to song
Secure in a brand new earth
Creator and creation in harmony
Echoing glad cries of new birth
So a new born baby's screams
Shouldn't come as any surprise
They are simply giving echo
To creation's longing sighs.
See Romans 8:19-23
19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its ******* to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its ******* to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
