Contemplative Bible Reading

Romans 8:18-21 (New International Version)

¹⁸ I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 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 bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

In these verses, I believe “the creation” is the world and the universe which was created by God. In verse 21, it seems that the creation, e.g., the world is in bondage to decay. This “bondage to decay” sounds like entropy to me.

While a complex subject, entropy is the basic property that describes how things decay. Things fall down, they age, they rot, they become less useful. Put a car in a parking lot and don’t touch it for ten years. How does it look after the decade? Consider our sun: if nothing changes in the universe, one day our sun will go dark after it consumes all its energy.

Entropy takes its toll.

In verse 19, i read that the creation, once again, the world waits in eager expectation for something. I believe that something when the children of God will be revealed is the second coming of Jesus and the descending of the new heaven onto the new earth. There is a lot of explaining that goes with this belief, and I will not delve into that at this time.

I will, however, say that I  believe the children of God will see an end to entropy.