Life is overwhelming somedays. We feel such pain for the things that take place in our homes and in the lives of those we love, that we wonder how we will ever survive. During those moments, we are at a loss for words, for tears, and for hope. What does a person do, where do they turn?
I imagine everyone reading today has felt this despair at one time or another. Perhaps you are in the midst of it right now. Where do you turn? Who comforts you during your lowest and most helpless season?
Romans 8:26 (MSG)
Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans.
When brokenness enters our life and when death or illness causes unbearable pain and heartache, we can know that God does care. The care goes deep and spreads over our entire lifetime. Remember that crush of first love which went unrequited? Remember the pain which accompanied the breaking heart? Sure, looking back we acknowledge how young we were and how unrealistic our feelings of our life being over were. But the pain was real.
In fact, that pain prepared us for the 'grown-up' pain we experienced years later. And with that comes another realization; God was there early on and God is here now. During those seasons we don't know how to even ask God for what we need, we don't have to. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans.
Romans 8:26-39
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