The Far Reaching Effect of Sin

“Cursed is the ground for your sake.” Genesis 3:17

What is the cost of lusting for what we don’t have and didn’t need? On one level it can be merely frustration, but it can move beyond that to real financial distress. We can get in over our heads and then we have to work too hard to ever have time to enjoy the fruit of our lust. The toil of our lives increases and the enjoyment decreases. It is a problem as old as Eden.

But wait, there is more. When man began to die physically, the earth began to decay as well. Man’s sin destroyed the perfection of God’s earthly creation. As the nursery rhyme goes, “and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put the earth together again.” The earth will never recover its glory until Christ comes and makes all things new. That doesn’t mean we should casually continue to destroy it, but it puts the lie to the idea that we can fix it. That is the product of our sin.

Dear Father, Help me be a steward of Your creation while I await Christ’s restoring of it. Amen.

                                             The Friday Benediction

Until Monday, my friends, may the good God envelop you with His grace; may you prove the common confession of faith, “I believe in the holy Christian church and in the fellowship of the saints”, and may you be enriched with joy and hope as you exercise that confession this weekend.  Amen

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