Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

The Spirit is a-moving and the activity of the moving Spirit is dangerous indeed!  Those who talk about wanting to feel God’s “sweet, sweet spirit in this place,” or those who say they are “spiritual but not religious” may need to question that thinking as we hear the words given to us today about the movement of the Spirit.  We tend to read a line like Romans 8:26 about the Spirit helping us “in our weakness,” and think, “Oh, that is pleasant, so sweet.”  However, such thoughts of pleasantness fail to put that verse in its proper context, and we quickly forget the prevailing image Paul gives us in this passage from Romans is that of childbirth – “the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains.”  Now, any woman present in this gathering who has actively given birth can testify and bear witness to the fact that childbirth is neither a sweet process, nor is it a gentle, comfortable, pleasant process.  And, I can imagine that there comes a point in almost every birthing process when every woman yearns, mayb