Sometimes Paul says things that you could spend months trying to understand and still not fully grasp. These verses are like that. Here, Paul is describing an experience that he has had as a Spirit-filled believer and explaining to us how it works. He says that the Spirit himself intercedes before God within us. But hang on, isn’t the Holy Spirit God? You could ask the same thing about Jesus when he prayed. How is it then that they pray to God? This, by the way, is why we say that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are three persons and not just three manifestations of God. I know this sounds pedantic but sometimes in our efforts to simplify our theology we miss a vital point of view of Scripture. And that point of view is this: the relationship between the persons of the Trinity is something that has ongoing relevance to our experience of God. God wants us to be caught up in a kind of mysterious process of divine interaction. We are part of a conversation in God. God the Father loves us but can only reward the righteous, Christ the Son pleads our innocence and righteousness by his atoning death and the Spirit lays claim to us and applies the blessings of our redeemed status in our everyday experience. You enter this experience when, in every moment, you trust in Christ and live by the Spirit. God is active in you and through you. His Spirit in you is drawing you into deeper interaction with himself. We can be part of this wonderful and incomprehensible whirlpool of divine interaction.
Ask God to open your eyes and heart to what you have in Christ.
Read Romans 8:26-27
