In today's GB News Daily Reflection, we review giving things up for Lent, or perhaps even as a New Year's Resolution.While it may be easy at first - you may have found it "harder and harder" as weeks pass."We all want to change, but we seem to find something in ourselves fighting against that change."Looking beyond ourselves as opposed to within could hold the answer.
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00:00the chibi news daily reflection hi my name is mark and i'm a vicar of an urban church in teesside
00:10i wonder if you've given up anything for lent this year perhaps there's something that you've
00:15been doing that you know is wrong and have decided that now is the time to kick it for good or
00:21perhaps a few months ago you made a new year's resolution to change how you acted if you have
00:26you'll probably have noticed that the first weeks might be easy but then you found it getting harder
00:32and harder to keep up your commitment it's weird because we all want to change but at the same time
00:38seem to find something inside ourselves fighting against that change the bible talks about this in
00:44the letter to the church in rome where saint paul writes that i want to do good evil is right there
00:50with me so what do we do maybe we double down our commitments and this time promise to try even
00:56harder but if the problem's within me perhaps i need to look outside myself to find help to change
01:03for me i've been encouraged and helped by friends and family but it's the promise of
01:07jesus that he'll keep working at transforming me even when i want to give up that i found particularly
01:13really precious
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