What’s Paul talking about here? Well, he’s just explaining our hope of eternal life in different terms. We eagerly await our fleshly bodies to be gone and to be completely spiritual, immortal, Christ-like, Holy Spirit-like.

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For mankind was made prone to vanity,
not willingly, but by reason of Him who has also given mankind hope,
because the creature itself also shall be delivered
from the bondage of corruption (mortality, death)
into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
For we know that all of creation groaned
and travailed (labors, suffers) in pain together until now.
And not only they, but ourselves also,
which have the first fruits of the Spirit,
(those who first received the Holy Spirit)
even we ourselves groan inside, waiting for the adoption,
to know, the redemption of our body.
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen, is not hope:
for what a man sees, why does he still hope for?
But if we hope for what we don’t see, then we wait for it with patience.
 

          Could you say then, that hope is the same as Faith? Just a little food for thought. Now here’s a really interesting thing that Paul teaches us about how the Holy Spirit makes intercession for us, but first I have a question for you to ask yourself. If you’ve read the Miracle Success Steps about Prayer, you’ll find that when you pray, you should pray according to the will of God. Have you ever stopped to really think about that? You may be thinking, Golly, if I knew what the will of God was, I’d just pray for that, and then I wouldn’t wonder why sometimes my prayers aren’t answered. There’s a humorous little saying that someone came up with that goes like this: God answers all prayers. His answers are, Yes, No, and Not now.

          But getting back to what Paul said earlier (in the last Daily Bread) our carnal selves want things that are totally different than what our spiritual selves want. Many times, we mess up and give in to our carnal desires and pray for those things. So, your fleshly self has a mind, and your spirit has a mind, and we need to rely on the Holy Spirit to intervene for us and chat with God about what our spirit is asking for, and lead us away from the fleshly desires. Now, it should be easier for you to understand what Paul says next.

Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses:
for we don’t know what we should pray for as we should:
but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us
with groanings which cannot be uttered.
And He that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit,
because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,
to them who are the called according to His purpose.

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          As you get to know Paul more and more, you’ll find that he switches gears a lot. You’ve probably met other people who do that as well. It may be because Paul had so many important things to teach that he didn’t want to forget something that may have popped into his mind, so he wrote it down before another great idea came along to do the same thing. You can tell that while he was writing that last sentence about the Holy Spirit, he wrote that everything works for good to those who are called by God. Now, he goes on to talk about those who have been called.

For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate
to be conformed to the image of His Son,
that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called:
and whom He called, them He also justified:
and whom He justified, them He also glorified.
What shall we then say to these things?
If God is for us, who can be against us?
 

Paul makes it clear, if you’re chosen by God, you’ve got a lot going for you.
 

God, who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all,
how shall He not, with Christ, also freely give us all things?
Who shall accuse God's chosen of anything? It is God that justifies.
Who would dare condemn who God called?
It is Christ that died, that is risen again,
who is even at the right hand of God,
who also makes intercession for us.

           Love this part ...

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall trouble, or distress, or persecution,
or famine, or poverty, or peril, or war?
As it is written,
For thy sake we are killed all the day long;
we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through Him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,
nor things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
 

Hope you’ll join us again soon for more of Paul’s great letter to the Romans. We’ll share it together right here, next time, at Daily Bread.