When Adam sinned, the creation that had been blessed and pronounced “very good” by God fell under judgment. Work suddenly became difficult, relationships had tensions, physical bodies were prone to disease and would waste away, and death cast its long shadow over everything. Even weather would no longer cooperate. Instead of a predictable mist watering a fertile garden, droughts, typhoons, tornados, floods, and earthquakes would remind us that even the earth groans. Nothing in all creation is quite right.
