00:00The Chibi News Daily Reflection
00:04Hi, I'm Chris Tufnell, a vicar in the Church of England.
00:10It's reported that in the early 1900s, the Times newspaper asked some famous authors to respond to the question,
00:19what's wrong with the world today?
00:21One reply read simply, dear sir, I am, yours faithfully, G.K. Chesterton.
00:29If we ran a poll on that same question today, I'm sure we'd get a wide range of responses.
00:36But I don't suppose many would say, I am.
00:41Over human history, the world has changed a lot.
00:44But if there's one thing that really hasn't changed, it's human nature.
00:48We're very ready to point out the faults in others and very slow to see them in ourselves.
00:54It's like in all our heads, there's a legal team ready to launch a prosecution whenever someone else does something wrong
01:01and to mount a defence whenever we do.
01:05Jesus put his finger right on the issue when he said,
01:09why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
01:17It's a sure sign of pride when we're more concerned about other people's sins than we are about our own.
01:25The only way to get the legal team in our heads to stand down is to know that the verdict's already in.
01:33As a Christian, I believe that through faith in Jesus, anyone can be declared not guilty
01:39because he was declared guilty for us when he died on the cross.
01:45And when you know you're forgiven, you're finally free to admit the truth about yourself
01:51and to show others the same grace you've received.
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