A groaning too big for words
There are, supposedly, about 6,000 languages spoken on the earth. Even if I knew all of those, I still wouldn't be bigger than the spirit inside me.
"Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God." -Romans 8:26-27
Even the smartest man on earth cannot be smarter than the Spirit of God -- God's translator for our foolish, earthly thoughts. We don't know how we ought to pray, the Word says, so we are helped by a translator that turns our words into deep wordless groanings that can be understood by God. I love the ways this is worded. I love that the best way we can understand the ultimate language is by our verb: to groan. This groaning is one that stems from the depths of our hearts, our souls and verbalizes the very essence of our inside. I imagine we are like Charlie Brown and the Holy Spirit like his teacher ... our finite minds just cannot understand the above intelligence. So the Teacher swoops down to our level, swooshes through our intestines, gathers the information, then makes it better and more understandable before presenting it to God.
For He is so much higher than we. Only in the Bible are words too dull and groanings the preferred use of language. I love it.
"Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God." -Romans 8:26-27
Even the smartest man on earth cannot be smarter than the Spirit of God -- God's translator for our foolish, earthly thoughts. We don't know how we ought to pray, the Word says, so we are helped by a translator that turns our words into deep wordless groanings that can be understood by God. I love the ways this is worded. I love that the best way we can understand the ultimate language is by our verb: to groan. This groaning is one that stems from the depths of our hearts, our souls and verbalizes the very essence of our inside. I imagine we are like Charlie Brown and the Holy Spirit like his teacher ... our finite minds just cannot understand the above intelligence. So the Teacher swoops down to our level, swooshes through our intestines, gathers the information, then makes it better and more understandable before presenting it to God.
For He is so much higher than we. Only in the Bible are words too dull and groanings the preferred use of language. I love it.
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