All of Creation Groans....

It is true that all creation groans and eagerly awaits the revealing of the sons of God.

This semester has been really refreshing being in Montgomery. It is funny to me that i am here. In this city. Because i swore that i would never come back here...while being very immature at the time, its about right that the Lord has brought me back to the places in which i grew up. Its about right that i have a yearning and eager expectation to see God do something revolutionary in this town that is traditional and lack the reality of christ as life. Some might question my comment just then. Thats just the brutal truth.

So the question ive been asking myself is, "what can a 21 year old college student do amongst such a large continengent of Church going people?" The answer that ive been sensing is absolutely nothing. Haha...however, Jesus can do anything he so desires in and through me to the glory. And in anyone else willing and available. As i sit here at my computer, with soo many thoughts passing through my mind and stirring in my heart...i cant grasp them all. But the one thing i am grasping is that really...all of creation is groaning and is in eager anticipation to see the sons of God revealed. I love it.

It doesn't matter where i am, at any point in the day, he is constantly showing the reality of that truth. Whether its in basketball practice with high school kids....in a large first baptist church....or even in my place of rest. The best is the other day i was looking in the mirror and it hit me. I am eager to see the sons of God revealed.

To take this story a little further...i was sitting at starbucks just yesterday late afternoon.....I moved my stuff outside because it was just too perfect to pass up.

Sitting there with my ipod nano (shout out to man db) but with only one headphone going, out of the other ear, i couldnt help but listen to a conversation going on just a few feet behind me.

The conversation consisted of 6 wealthy-looking business men. It truly was a sight. I mean these guys were dappered out. They certaintly weren't struggling nor would they be anytime soon. I don't quite know exactly what they were doing there, but i do know that it served a greater purpose. One man was throwing out figures that i will never see in my life-time. Actually my whole family has never seen all together. But he was saying that with all that money..."there has to be a greater purpose than to be just wealthy." Yeah, that got my attention. I started listening more...

This man to his right sat up out of his chair and started saying that the greater purpose is God and how that plays into there having lots of money. Now i dont know where they stand but i know that something is stirring in them. Something great.

Now, i must say there isnt an exciting end to this story. I didnt get up to go counsel these much older, much more sophisticated businessmen. I just smiled at them and waved. Praying that God continue to stir in them. They were hearing right on that day.

That 10 minute conversation amongst total strangers(that i didnt take part in) has done alot in me to see that all creation really is groaning and desiring to see Jesus come alive in the people of God. Exciting!

::johnchristian