But how do we know that God’s spirit will be there, doing this work? How do we know that God has not given up on his creation in disgust, as some Jewish thinkers speculated? Because we will be there, indwelt by that same spirit. We are called to be people who stand at the place of pain – in the cancer ward, at the asylum-seeker’s court hearing, by the graveyard full of memorials to small children or to families whose homes have been bombed in war – so as to be those within whose own painful perplexity the holy spirit will plead to the father on behalf of the whole creation. Indwelt by God’s
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