A prayer to remember God's closeness in your suffering, written by Alistair Begg and read by Kelly Gibbons.

And a voice came out of the heavens,

You are my beloved son.

In you I am well pleased.

Mark 111.

Why was Christ chosen out of the people. Speak my heart, for heart thoughts are best.

Was it not that he might be able to be our brother in the

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kindred blood. Oh, what relationship there is in Christ and the believer.

The believer can say,

I have a brother in heaven.

I may be poor, but I have a brother who is rich and is a king and will he allow me to be in want while he is on his throne?

Oh no he loves me he is my brother. Believer wear this blessed

thought like a necklace of diamonds around the neck of your memory. Put it as a gold ring on the finger of recollection

and use it as the King's own seal,

stamping the petitions of your faith with confidence of success. He is a brother born for adversity.

Treat him as such. Christ was also chosen out of the people that he might know our wants and sympathize with us.

As Hebrews 4 reminds us, Christ was, in every respect tempted as we are,

yet without sin.

In all our sorrows we have his sympathy.

Temptation, pain, disappointment, weakness, weariness, poverty, he knows them all, for he has felt all.

Remember this, Christian, and let it comfort you. However difficult and painful your road, it is marked by the footsteps of your Savior.

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