This isn’t just about ‘going through a rough time’. Nor is it simply ‘something we occasionally have to put up with’. Paul is talking about our vocation not just to get through difficult times but to stand in prayer where the world is in pain so that God’s own spirit may be present, and intercede, right there. This is one of the most revolutionary and innovative moments in the whole letter. Paul here fills out both his Trinitarian theology of new creation and his pastoral understanding of the depths of the Christian heart, and joins them together. God’s spirit comes to dwell in the midst of
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