The Groaning World: Creation's Stake in Your Resurrection — Romans 8:19-21

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. — The cosmos is not scenery for human redemption — it is a co-participant waiting for the same liberation.