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Sunday, December 19, 2004

Stepping into the Glory -Romans 8

Romans 8:26 "but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;"
Looked up a few words in dictionery:
Groan:
"1 : to utter a deep moan indicative of pain, grief, or annoyance
2 : to make a harsh sound (as of creaking) under sudden or prolonged strain"

Intercede:"to intervene between parties with a view to reconciling differences"

Intervene: "Latin intervenire to come between, from inter- + venire to come -- more at COME
1 : to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events
2 : to enter or appear as an irrelevant or extraneous feature or circumstance
3 : to come in or between by way of hindrance or modification
4 : to occur or lie between two things
5 a : to become a third party to a legal proceeding begun by others for the protection of an alleged interest b : to interfere usually by force or threat of force in another nation's internal affairs especially to compel or prevent an action"

At the end of ourselves is the beginning of God. At the end of ourselves, there's moaning and groaning, frustrated by our incompetence and failure. But at the end of ourselves comes the intervention of the Spirit, who understands our frustrations, but intervened to take us into a whole new realm-- the glory of God.

The Chinese written character "enter" draws this picture perfectly:at the end of one track, it leads to another track.