Good
Morning All,
Romans 8:27; “And he who
searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit
intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.”
I was watching an old Jimmy Stewart movie
the other day titled “Anatomy of a Murder.”
It is based on a true event where a soldier walks into a tavern and
kills the owner and then leaves. The
version of events that he and his wife state is that the tavern owner raped the
wife one night. The wife goes home and
tells the husband; he loads his pistol, drives down to the tavern, and shoots
the tavern owner. The soldier is
acquitted because of something called “irresistible impulse”. This is like an insanity plea in that the
person is unable to resist the impulse to do what he does. Usually, the person experiences some form of
intense emotional upheaval. The soldier
is found not guilty. It is a good tense
movie with some big names and has an ironic twist at the end.
Throughout the trial, the
back and forth was “what was on his mind?”
“What was he thinking?” “Did he
know that what he was doing was wrong?”
The defense and the prosecution went back and forth until a not guilty
verdict comes back. The question came
down to how we know what another person is thinking. How do we know? We cannot look into their mind or heart and
see what their desire is; we can only guess.
So how do we know?
The deep-down basic truth is
that we cannot ever know with 100% certainty what another person is thinking or
what their motives are. There is always
some level of uncertainty. For us as
humans we can never be sure, did the man in the movie really know what he was doing,
or did he have a hidden reason? We may
never know what someone thinks or feels but God does.
This can be one of the great
comforts in our life. There may be times
in your life when you only know the pain or the sorrow. You only know the hurt; you do not see any
remedy or relief in sight. You only seek
to have the pain relieved. You seek
after God’s grace to heal you. You may
not know how to find it; you only know that you need his love and grace
desperately. We may not know what to say
or how to say it, but the Holy Spirit searches our heart and our soul. He knows our mind and our needs. He knows how to pray and what to say in these
times of pain and sorrow. With the
Spirit’s intercession, God has mercy on us.
With the Spirit’s intercession and cries for mercy for us, God responds
with his grace and sends us comfort; he sends us hope. We are his dear children; he will never fail
us.
Father of all grace and
mercy, through your great love and mercy we have the comfort of your loving
arms surrounding us and lifting us up in times of distress. You heal us in your great compassion. Send your knowing and searching Spirit to
seek out the hurting, the suffering and the lost. Heal their pain and bind their wounds. In the precious name of Jesus our Risen
Savior we pray, amen.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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