I think we all struggle from time-to-time with attachment to this world. There is so much that we see, taste, touch and feel that we sense to compulsion to fall in love with the temporal and forget about the eternal. After all, the world that God created is beautiful in so many different ways and He did create it for us to enjoy. The danger comes when we fall in love with the creation instead of the Creator.

Yes, the creation was given for us to enjoy, but ultimately it was for the glory God. The world was given to reveal God to us (cf. Romans 1:20) and once God was revealed then we are responsible to respond to that revelation and honor God. The problem comes when we become so enthralled with the created thing that the Creator becomes secondary to our appreciation, or, even more tragically, is completely forgotten. That is the perversion of creation.

Yes, we pervert the world when we turn it into something that God never intended it to be. Paul clearly expressed this in Romans 1:

²¹For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²²Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

It may also be surprising to discover that this is not what creation longs for. It doesn’t want the attention we have been giving it. It doesn’t want to be perverted to the point of worship. Notice how Scripture puts it:

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. (Romans 8:22)

The world is crying out in pain to be release from the curse of sin that Adam caused through his disobedience to God.

I hope it makes you think…God created the world with an order and that order clearly points to His majestic beauty. God is truly a Grand Canyon God! Let’s not get it mixed up.

Grace & Peace, Scott