Charles Spurgeon Commentary Romans 8:22

"For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." — Romans 8:22 (ASV)

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

The birth-pangs of the creation are on it; the living creature within is moving itself to break its shell, and come forth.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Deep groans are in the world. Have you not heard of earthquakes? Do you not know how the whole world is in a tremor?

There is something coming, and all the world is groaning for that coming. God makes the universe to be like an instrument of music played upon by the fingers of mortal men: so that when they are sorrowful, the world is sorrowful, and when they go forth with joy and are led forth with peace, then the mountains and the hills shall break forth before them into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. We know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.