More Than Meets the Eye - Your Family Pet
Posted on January 18, 2008 | Filed Under Pets - Part of the Family
What do you see when you look at the pets in your family? Do you see a creature who possesses an ability to think and 
If your view of the creatures who were made ALONG SIDE of man on the sixth day of creation is dim and lacking, please TAKE HEART!
The series of articles that you will find here at *Heart Notes From Home* have been PRAYERFULLY written JUST FOR YOU! I want to help you fully understand and see the value and importance that the Lord of Hosts has placed upon the animals. Our focus will be on the land roaming creatures, particularly those who remained close to man after the fall. Dogs and cats.
Has the Lord of Heaven and Earth, Maker and Creator of the Universe EVER created anything in vain or worthless? NO.
Let’s take a look at Romans 8:19-20
19-For [even the whole] creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God’s sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship].
20-For the creation (nature) was subjected to frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it–[yet] with the hope, AMP
And now let’s look at those same verses found in the King James version;
19-For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20-For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, KJV
As you can see, verse 19 is making a reference to all of creation, not just humans. What is creation waiting for? For the sons of God to be revealed. Those who are made new and saved by His wonderful grace. No sin was committed on the part of the creature. Since the animals had been placed under Adam’s care from the start, it only stands to reason that they would suffer along with man. Through no fault of their own, the animals and all of creation had to suffer the penalty that resulted from that very first sin in the Garden of Eden.
Animals DID NOT and do not commit sin as we do. Therefore, they do not need to be forgiven of their sin as we do. As they reaped the consequences from the fall, so shall they reap the glories from redemption.
Look at verses 21 - 25 in Romans;
21 the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. 22 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. 24 We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. 25 But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.) NLT
All of creation is looking forward to this awesome freedom from death! ALL OF CREATION WILL BE FREE ALONG WITH GOD’S CHILDREN! We AND they are NOT looking forward to NON-EXISTENCE, No, but a RENEWAL of ALL THINGS! A new life free from the curse, sin and death.
Is there anything too difficult for our God?
He is able my friend. He is able.
In His Love,
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