"For all who are led by the Spirit of God are
children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into
fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”
it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of
God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ --
if, in fact, we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him… Likewise the Spirit helps us in our
weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit
intercedes with sighs too deep for words.
And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit,
because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of
God." (Romans 8:14-17, 26-27 NRSV)
For the Spirit we have received is
the Spirit of the Son of God, and we possessing it are God's [children] too,
and "that of God in us" leaps out towards the God who is the source
of it. The Spirit of Jesus within us
moves us to prayer: indeed, prayer is just the moving of God's Son in us
towards the Father. Though we are
burdened with the greatness of our need, so that our prayers are not even
articulate, yet in such "inarticulate sighs" the Spirit
"intercedes for us."
--
C. Harold Dodd in The Meaning of Paul for Today
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