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. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God.
That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.
Romans 8:26-30 (The Message)
God I was just so so so so reminded of your love. Often we say we love someone and we would do anything for someone, we do an act of love with an expectation of appreciation, recognition, acknowledgement. But sometimes when we don't get it in return, we get upset and indignant about it. But God, isn't your love like that. Isn't your love thankless? From the moment You sent your son to die for us, people werent just unappreciative of that. They turned away from you. Help me oh Lord, to be more and more like you. We'll never measure up to You O Lord, but help me, my life, to be increasingly Christ-like. To realise what it means by the one way nature of your love for us.
12:57 AM
blessed.
