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In today's GB News Daily Reflection, we speak about how much pain we have in this world.Maybe you are experiencing pain, loss or trouble or some kind."We have a great ability to ignore our own stuff. The Bible acknowledges pain and suffering in this world is very real."God can empathise and sympathise in our weakness. He offers us forgiveness that we can then extend to others."

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00:00the chibi news daily reflection hello my name is marjorie and i'm a baptist leader in sheffield

00:10do you ever switch on the news and just find yourself reflecting on how much pain there is

00:17in this world maybe you are someone who is currently experiencing pain or loss or trouble

00:25of some kind often if we are honest we want mercy for us when we are struggling or in trouble and

00:31justice for others we get very worked up about other people's wrongdoing and have a great ability

00:39to ignore our own stuff the bible acknowledges that pain and suffering in this world is very real

00:45and in the book of hebrews we read that we have a god revealed in jesus christ who himself was

00:52acquainted with pain suffering and grief that means that today god can empathize and sympathize

01:00in our suffering and weakness he is a god who offers us forgiveness which we can then extend to others

01:08in my job as a church minister i often sit with people on the bad days and yet i am really struck

01:15by the fact however bad it gets we have a god who suffered for us suffers with us and who offers us

01:23fresh hope i often think of it like this we may be walking through a valley but he walks with us and

01:30one day we will come out of the valley and see a new horizon maybe seen with a different perspective

01:37in the meantime nothing absolutely nothing can keep us from his love and the apostle paul said this in

01:45romans 8 for i am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from god's love neither death nor life

01:55neither angels nor demons neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow not even the powers of

02:02hell can separate us from god's love no power in the sky above or in the earth below indeed nothing in all

02:10of creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of god that is revealed in christ jesus our lord

GB News Daily Reflections - Thursday 17 July

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