Today's Daily reflection reminds us that, like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, we may not always recognise God walking with us.Yet through the risen Jesus, our sorrow turns to a sure and certain hope for today and for tomorrow.
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00:00The GB News daily reflection. Hello my name is Marjorie and I'm a Baptist minister in a city
00:10centre church in Sheffield. There's a very human story that comes at the end of Luke's Gospel.
00:16Two of Jesus's friends are walking together on the road to Emmaus discussing the terrible events
00:23surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus and they fail to recognise that the risen Jesus is now
00:29walking and talking with them. We had hoped it would be different they say. I wonder sometimes
00:36if we miss the closeness of God and we fail to recognise him in just the same way. It's also
00:42possible that we may be heavy-hearted by our circumstances and we may feel that we can't
00:48lift our heads to a higher horizon. This story reminds us clearly that God's ways of ruling and
00:56operating are so completely different to those of this world. He didn't come to condemn the world
01:02but to save it. He leaves his friends on the road who now recognise his identity with a promise,
01:09I will send the Holy Spirit as the Father has promised. Waiting in life, these in-between times
01:18can be really hard but to wait with hope is completely different. The same followers went on to tell the
01:25world of this incredible hope we can have and then we had hoped it would be different becomes instead
01:34in the resurrection of Jesus we have this sure and certain hope. A hope for ourselves, hope for today
01:42and bright hope for tomorrow.