As we have seen
earlier, the moment Adam defiled God’s counsel and ate from the forbidden tree,
the entire creation was in bondage to decay, leading to death. The problem was not so much that Adam ate the
forbidden fruit. Rather, it was his
blatant defiance of God’s counsel that had significant and devastating consequences.
Moaning suggests pain
and torment. Since the time of Adam’s
defiant act, the whole creation was suffering from the painful consequences of
sin. Creation groaned in pain as a result
of Adam’s sin and the subsequent curse on creation.
It
has been so but only until now.
As an immediate
aftermath of Adam’s defiant act, the ground or planet earth was put under a
curse as written in Genesis 3:17. As Romans 7:13 tells us, the Law was
given to show us how terrible sin really is; how much damage it has caused us. Romans 3:20 adds that the Law only
shows us our sin. Volume
1 of this series takes an in-depth look at this aspect.
According to Galatians 3:13, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the
Law, I read that to mean that we have also been redeemed from the effects of
the curse on the ground as pronounced in Genesis 3:17-19. One of the effects of that curse on the ground
is that “in
sorrow and toil we shall eat the fruit of it all the days of our
lives. Both thorns and thistles it shall
grow for us and by the sweat of our faces we will eat bread until we return to
the ground”.
In other words, we will labour under stress to put food on the
able. But thanks be to God, Christ
crucified has redeemed us from that curse so that “everything our hands touch
shall prosper”.
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