Romans 8:18,26-30 NKJV

18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us… 26Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

28And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Human Emotions

Life is hard sometimes. Things don’t always go the way we had hoped. We have disappointments sometimes that hurt us emotionally, sometimes which bring us to tears. We were hoping for one thing to happen when the opposite of that happened, instead. And I know that these things are minor compared to the bigger more tragic things which are going on in the world around us, but God gave us feelings. He gave us emotions. He made us capable of loving and of getting hurt, too. And so we have to work through these.

For suffering isn’t all just the big stuff, though it certainly is the big stuff. But I think sometimes it is the little stuff which hits us harder, because it is what is closer to our hearts, to our emotions, to what we feel. For we are feeling people. But the Spirit of God helps us in our weaknesses when the difficulties and challenges of this life hit us where it hurts emotionally, if we will turn to him for help and not let our emotions get the best of us. We just have to let go and let God take control and trust him with our circumstances.

He Makes Intercession

Do you ever feel like you are all alone in this world? You may have people all around you, and yet you feel alone, you feel isolated, perhaps even deserted. Perhaps people have deserted or abandoned you because of what you stand for and what you share publicly because that is not in their comfort zone. You stand on truth and righteousness in a day when so many people are making compromises with the world. And so you stand out as different. And different doesn’t always make people want to be with you.

And since God made us as people who generally want to be with other people, for that was his design, and he made us people with feelings and emotions, there might be those times in our lives when our emotions are weak when we feel this more than at other times. And so it is comforting to know that the Spirit of God is making intercession for us in our weaknesses. For in those times we need help. We need encouragement. We need the strengthening of the Lord to fight our emotional battles to victory.

For Our Good

Now, what may seem like circumstances in our lives which are without hope, God can turn around for good in our lives. And “good” doesn’t necessarily mean what feels good to our emotions, but what is for our ultimate good, i.e. what is best for us, what is needed or necessary in our lives in order for our Lord to conform us and to transform us into the likeness of Jesus Christ and to make us the people of God he wants us to be. But we must be those who love (obey) God and who are the called according to HIS purpose.

And HIS purpose for us is that we deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands in daily surrender to his will. And it is that we live for him, and that we do his will, that we go where he sends us and that we do and say all that he commands. And it is that we surrender to our Lord in allowing him to conform us to the likeness of Christ. And it is that we answer his call upon our lives and we have that change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior, and that we live to do HIS will.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]

I AM WILLING, LORD

By Joni Eareckson Tada

Sometimes when I am down,
And I don’t feel like You’re around, Oh Lord
Feeling so sorry for me,
Not knowing that all the while You’re working to see,
If when I’m put through the fire,
I’ll come out shining like gold,
Oh, Lord, please don’t ever stop working with me,
’til You see I can be all You want me to be.

Often when I ask why,
Teach me then on You to rely O Lord,
You surely know what is best
May I learn that in confidence and strength I can rest
Then, leaning fully on You, my questions fall one by one.
Oh, dear Lord, please don’t ever stop working with me
’til You see I can be all You want me to be

I am willing Lord, I am willing Lord,
To be just exactly what You want me to be

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