Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Ready Yet?

"Romans 8:19 The created world itself can hardly wait for what's coming next. 20Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in 21until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens."

I read this passage to my 8 year old last night and ask him how God will know when creation and the created are ready. What do we need to do to be ready?

He replied, "My theory is that God is watching us. He isn't worried about our sin because Jesus took care of that so our sin doesn't count. But God is seeing how many times we could have sinned but chose to do good instead. When he counts up enough of those, we are ready."

1 comment:

kiki said...

Your son has wisdom. Perhaps it is his gifting. In fact, I have been convicted by his words.