07/16/2026 – “The Matrix” / “For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now.” Romans 8:22. And not only that!…
“And not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the first fruits — we. also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.” Romans 8:23
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“We were outside at night and, as we often enjoyed doing, looking up at the stars.
“Your life began in darkness,” he said, “in the darkness of the womb. It was once all you know, your entire life, your entire world. If you had been asked then to describe life, you would describe it as being dark, warm, and wet. And if someone tried to tell you that there was more to life, another life, another world, outside the womb, a world of stars and grass, of flowers and faces, of sand castles and setting suns, what would you have thought?”
“I guess I wouldn’t have believed it. I wouldn’t have been able to fathom it.”
“But would there be a way that you could have know that this other life, this world beyond the womb, actually existed? What evidence would you have had within the womb of that which was beyond the womb?”
“I don’t know.”
“You,” said the teacher. “You would be the evidence… you, dwelling in darkness yet with eyes made to see color and light… with no ground to walk on, yet with feet to run… with no air to breathe and yet with lungs made to breathe air and a voice box with which to speak into the air… with no one’s hand to hold, yet with two hands made to hold and be held by the hand of another. You yourself would be the evidence of the life beyond your life in the womb and world beyond your world. Your very being was the evidence of a world yet to come, and yet you were surrounded by a much smaller world that was unable to answer what was within you.”
“And this reveals …”
“When you hear of a world beyond this world and a life beyond this life, when you hear of heaven, you’re hearing of it as a child in the womb. You’ve never seen it or touched it. And yet everything within you was made to know this world and live within it … a heart made for a live that is perfect and without condition, a soul yearning for that which is eternal, a spirit longing to dwell in a place of no death, no fear, no tears, no darkness, and no evil. And yet you live in a world of imperfection, of corruption, of pain and evil, of darkness and the absence of love. And as it was in the womb, so too this world can never answer the longings of your hear or the purpose for which you came into existence. And every tear, ever sorrow, every disappointment, every unfulfilled longing is just a reminder that you’re not home, and that you were made for something more, to be a child of heaven … and that this life is only the beginning of real life and the matrix of the world to come.”
The Mission: Take all the unfulfilled longings, needs, and desires of your life and turn them away from the worldly to the heavenly.
Psalm 139: 13-16; Romans 8:22
The Matrix World
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Soli Deo Gloria!
Commentary from the “Apologetics Study Bible”, the title verses of this post:
“8: 20-23. Evil in the world resulted from human sin and selfishness (Galatians 3:17). Now creation struggles in “bondage of corruption” and groans, waiting its restoration. Christians still corrupted by sin await the redemption of their bodies. Christians value the creation of God’s handiwork and groan with it in eager anticipation of the better days of the new creation (2 Peter 3:13: Revelation 21:1).”
“For it was You who created my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, and I know this very well. My bones were not hidden from you when I was made in secret, when I was formed in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began.” Psalm 139: 13-16
So, when did life begin according to our Creator?
“The word of the LORD came to me: I chose you before I formed you in the womb; I set you apart before you were born. I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1: 4-5