The Groaning

The reality is that people are hurting. To groan is what we do when we are in pain. Groaning happens when a mother is in labor. What happens when an entire nation or people are groaning in the same pain? This is the pain of hurt, betrayal, and feeling abandoned, misunderstood, and forgotten. The reality is that we are all groaning.

Romans 8:18–24, New Living Translation

Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. ¹⁹ For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. ²⁰ Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, 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.

The secret is out. God hears, and He is ready to respond to our groaning.