Charles Spurgeon Commentary Romans 7:20-22

"But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me. I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:" — Romans 7:20-22 (ASV)

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Just as our body is, so to speak, the world, the earth in which our spirit dwells: so this big earth is the body in which the Church dwells. This body has its pains, and so this creation has its pains. But as this body is to rise again, so this creation also, though it groaneth and travaileth, is to be brought into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

And what a world it will be when the curse that fell on it through the sin of Eden will be removed by the glorious Atonement of Calvary, and when the blood of Christ that fell to the ground—which, you will remember, has never gone away from the earth but is somewhere still—will have fully redeemed the world. The whole world will then be a trophy of the Redeemer's power.