Earlier today I was browsing on Facebook and saw a friend's status update that said, "God's timing..."
I commented, "Is sometimes annoying and amazing at the same time."
That was before I read today's passage which actually had some similar themes. In the passage, there's a section where Paul is writing about the "joyful anticipation" of all creation for something much greater than this world (Heaven, actually). Paul compares it to pregnancy. I haven't experienced that yet, but I'm pretty sure from talking to my friends that pregnancy could also be described as, "...Sometimes annoying and amazing at the same time."
People don't like waiting. And our timing is different than God's timing.
I love what the Word says here:
Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting,
God's Spirit is right alongside
helping us along.
If we don't know how or what to pray,
it doesn't matter.
He does our praying in and for us,
making prayer out of our wordless sighs,
our aching groans.
He knows us far better than we know ourselves,
knows our pregnant condition,
and keeps us present before God.
That's why we can be so sure
that every detail
in our lives of love for God
is worked into something good.
I realize that the last portion of this Scripture could sound so Pollyanna---that good can come from every detail of your life and love for God.
It's important to remember, though, that God's Word is always true. This verse could sound cheesy to you at first, but it wasn't written by a Disney character. These words were penned by guy who experienced a lot of pain--jail, shipwrecks, snake bites, abandonment--you name it. Paul faced these terrible things, but wrote with Pollyanna-like hope. Why?
I believe the beginning of the quote tells us--he felt God's help during his pain. He believed God never left him--that God knew what it felt like to face hard things and the human "pregnancy" feeling of waiting and hoping for something more. That's pretty amazing (and not really annoying at all!).
Tomorrow: Romans 11-13
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