Sunday, December 24, 2017

The Spirit Helps Our Infirmities.

Rom 8:26  Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 

The Holy Spirit helps our infirmities-

Infirmities-- 'Define infirmity: the quality or state of being infirm; the condition of being feeble : frailty; disease, malady'

The Holy Spirits helps our- feeble conditions, our frailties, our diseases.  Left on our own accord without any hope, without a Savior, without a Holy Spirit, without God- our condition could most assuredly lead us to despair quickly.  Sure, there are a lot of atheists and such, who seem to lead good lives here and now and why wouldn't they? Why would Satan have to beleaguer them if they belong to him? Tested and tried, our God wants us to recognize our need of Him, our need of a hope beyond this world, beyond all our infirmities of every sort. How can we truly believe that all the heartache and pain, all the horrors of this world are supposed to be the way of humanity. For thousands of years we've tried to bring world-wide peace, but it never really takes, why? The simple answer is because ultimately mankind is so incredibly selfish that there are not enough people who aren't selfish to bring the sacrifice it takes to work towards real world peace. We will never have world peace, mankind without the truth found in Jesus Christ will never as a whole be unselfish. 

Luk_12:51  Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division

Joh_14:27  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Joh_16:33  These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Until we live with our Savior in a world without sin, there will be no world peace, none. There may be overtures towards this, there may be strides made, but ultimately true world peace cannot exist without our Savior, and frankly, there are way too many people who choose not to serve our Savior, not to believe. 

The Holy Spirit will help our infirmities as individuals, as we choose to belong to our Savior.

Rom 8:26  Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 

We know we ought to pray, just not always what to pray for. We often pray amiss because we are praying from a selfish frame of mind, a mind that wants its will to be done, and not God's. God's will isn't always in line with the things we want to be done, the things we want to do, the things we desire. We may think they are, but we aren't privileged to know the end from the beginning. We do NOT know what fires, what tribulations, what agonies we need to go through in order to refine us. Just as we do not know what we need to go through, we can't possibly know what others need to endure. We pray for so much, but ultimately we need to pray God's will be done. The Holy Spirit will make intercession for us with GROANINGS that can't even be uttered, we need to let the Holy Spirit make intercession for us, we need to yield to the Holy Spirit.

All through Jesus Christ our LORD and SAVIOR, NOW and FOREVER!!!!!!! All in HIS LOVE!

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