Hi, and welcome to Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word,

prayers, and our heart. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me,

which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. Jesus is so many things to us, isn't he?

Redeemer, Savior, confidant, best friend. Sometimes because he's such a personal God,

I think we forget that personal doesn't mean casual. This God that we love and is so personal and

near is a God to be worshipped and respected and he's earned a title that no one else has or will ever or should ever be given.

It's a special one for sure, and that's what our conversation is going to center on today.

As I was writing the book Five Word Prayers, I was thinking about the different prayer offerings I wanted to personally make to God and also obviously universally, since the books I write

are for you much more than really for me.

And one of the things God prompted me towards was this

remembrance of who he is and the titles he has earned in our lives, specifically what we're

talking about today, the title of master. Now, I can tell you, no human will ever get me to call

them master. I can assure you of that. But even in talking about

this today, I'm challenged by the idea that I don't always call other things my master,

yet I treat them as my master as I let them dictate and tell me what to do and I let them

run my life in some different areas. And that is just as displeasing to God

as if I were to physically bow down to them and call them my master. It's tough for me to wrap my

mind around this, but I know it's true. God doesn't want to be one of my masters, not a master, but my one and only master,

the master of my life. It's the same for you. He wants our full attention, and not because he's a

needy God, but because he loves us with a fierce love, and him being our master rules our lives to order and peace and vibrancy.

It's just the way he set it up because it's the way he knew it would work.

When Jesus washes the feet of his disciples in John 13, he basically says to them this,

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