ACCORDING TO THE MIND OF GOD

PRAYER MOMENT

Wednesday, 30 October 2013

ACCORDING TO THE MIND OF GOD

Pause.  Enter within and be still.

Reading. “God who knows everything in our hearts knows perfectly well what he means, and that the pleas of the saints expressed by the Spirit are according to the mind of God” (Romans 8:26-30)

Reflection. Romans Chap. 8 moves on each day to lead us deeper into the gift that God gives us in his Spirit. Many words in prayer are not necessary. If they are said, as in the rosary, the repeating of the words carry forward the one praying. What Paul is saying is that it is not you who are praying but the Spirit within you. The gift of the Spirit is so intimate that the person is taken over by God. “It is not I who live but Christ who lives in me” (Gal 2:20). The “adoption” that Paul speaks of in this chapter means that the person becomes one with Jesus in calling God “Father” and a “co-heir” with him both in his sufferings and in his glory. It was a realisation that carried Paul through all his stonings, floggings and shipwrecks, all his rejections and frustrations until he had “finished the race.”

Prayer. Lord Jesus, strengthen your people with this deep encouragement that you live in us through your Spirit. In all our challenges you are there. Teach us to trust so that we do not think we have to do it all on our own. Amen.