There are many things which are beautiful and nice about our present world. Even so most of us are soon aware that something is wrong, or more than one thing is seriously wrong in this present world.

It hasn’t always been like this

In a way we even sense this inside us. Man was once in a perfect place, and had a perfect job, tending a beautiful and bountiful garden. Our ancestor’s rebellion against God’s instructions changed all of this, so,

“17 … cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.”
Gen 3:17-18 WEB

And that was just the beginning.

Sin ruins things

Sometimes things can go back and forth because of our stubbornness or repentance.

“33 He turns rivers into a desert,
Water springs into a thirsty ground,
34 And a fruitful land into a salt waste,
For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
35 He turns a desert into a pool of water,
And a dry land into water springs.
36 There he makes the hungry live,
That they may prepare a city to live in,
37 Sow fields, plant vineyards,
And reap the fruits of increase.
38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly.
He doesn’t allow their cattle to decrease.”
Psa 107:33-38 WEB

It is sin that pollutes our world

“4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants of it; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.”
Isa 24:4-6 WEB

God looks for and tries to encourage repentance

“8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. 9 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 10 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.”
Jer 18:8-10 WEB

In Physics these laws of decay are called “entropy.”

Entropy in everyday terms means that things run down, decay, fall apart. In Rom 8:20 Paul says that the world was subjected to this frustration, this futility, this vanity/emptiness, by God’s decision. But He says that one day

“that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.”
Rom 8:21 WEB

Entropy is not an eternal law, but a temporary dilemma of our present universe because of sin. We have become a part of a cosmic rebellion.

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