Christ Church Rockville Lenten Devotion

Jer. 22:13-23
Rom. 8:12-27
John 6:41-51

Today’s readings touch on justice, difficult questions, and help in prayer. Each of them speaks to me, and I trust they will to you. I was especially struck by the passage from Romans, in particular:
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.” Romans 8, 26-27
What a wonderful and powerful image—the Spirit interceding for us “with sighs too deep for words.” Does this mean that prayer transcends words? How ought we to pray? If “we do not know how to pray as we ought,” how do we learn to do so? How do we open our hearts to the Spirit and encourage the Spirit’s intercession with our prayers? How does the Lenten practice of giving up something help us “to pray as we ought?” How can we use this Lenten season to deepen our understanding of prayer?

— Sandra Clark

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