Advent (Day 9)

December 7, 2021

PRAYER:
O Educator, be gracious to Your children, O Educator, Father, Guide of Israel, Son and Father, both one, Lord: Give to us, who follow Your command, to fulfill the likeness of Your image, and to see, according to our strength, the God who is both a good God and a Judge who is not harsh. We ask that You would bestow all things on us who dwell in Your peace, who have been placed in Your city, who sail the sea of sin unruffled, so that we may be made tranquil and supported by the Holy Spirit, the unutterable Wisdom, by night and day, unto the perfect day, to sing eternal thanksgiving to the one only Father and Son, Son and Father, Educator and Teacher with the Holy Spirit. Amen. ~ CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA, AD 150-215

Romans 8:18-27

New International Version

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

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