Robin

  This morning I heard something hit the screen door of our front porch and found a robin lying on the floor.  It was gasping for air and it looked like maybe bones it had broken and the bird was in pain, so I was relieved to see it die just a couple of minutes later.

  When I occasionally have to watch an animal die or I attend a funeral I see it as a reminder that the Creation is cursed and death entered the world because of the sins of mankind.  Even my least favorite movies are those where a dog or a horse is the hero and end up dying.  I definitely wasn’t raised a farm boy ! 

  However, what’s even more important to remember is that all men will die because:

¹² “through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—…”

and then Romans 5 continues to talk about the God’s law – which the speakers at the CHEF Conference were addressing just a couple of days ago - and tells us how the Second Adam came and lived a perfect and righteous life:

²⁰ Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, ²¹ so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.