107 truths about God, the world, and you.
17: If it’s bad, broken, or barren, it’s our fault!

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Then the Lord God said… “What is this that you have done?”
Genesis 3:13 ESV
In violating God’s one way of life, man broke the world in which we live. What was very good became a way of fear, pain, discord, difficulty, and death.
Broken. The one word best describing the state of the world and people since sin ousted us from Eden.
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves…
Romans 8:22-23 ESV
Today see the pain, dis-ease, and destruction in the world as the consequence of humankind’s sin against God: yours, mine, ours. Cry out to Him for mercy. Look forward to the hope of His making all things new.