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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, my name is Mark and I'm the Vicar of St Oswald and St Chad's, part of the Church of England in Middlesbrough
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About a year before she became Chancellor of Exchequer, Rachel Reeves gave a speech in New York in which she said this
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We're now living through what I consider to be an age of insecurity. In just the past few years there have been three events that might be easily described as once in a generation
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if not once in a lifetime. You might disagree with what she thinks we should do about these things
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but I think her description is accurate. The age we live in does feel insecure
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and so it's not surprising when we hear yet another report in the news
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that people's anxieties are on the rise, they're worried about more things. What does Jesus say about this stuff
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Well in Matthew's Gospel he says this Why do you worry about clothes
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See how the lilies of the field grow? They don't labour or spin yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these
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now Jesus isn't just being fatalistic there he's not saying what will be will be
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he's saying underneath everything above everything God is in control as a Christian I take great
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comfort of that that though we live in an age of insecurity Jesus has promised security for me
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and that promise is unshakable
