That which bites you can also heal you. God’s ultimate promise is to heal an ailing creation. Yet there is no healing without hurting. To experience God’s salvation, we must first experience “sinsation.” The very word, “salvation” comes from the word “salve” meaning health. In Jesus’ salvation, God restores his sin-sick creation to perfect health. He does so by first embracing death.

What the first “Adam” spoiled, Jesus, the “second Adam” will heal. The first Adam in his soiling of God’s perfect environment essentially inaugurated time, space, aging, and an expiration date for all things, organic and inorganic.

Jesus, the second Adam, will restore the world and reverse death and erosion, offering a gift of eternal life and eternal kingdom with his gift of redemption and salvation.

If th…