Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning's with the masters of your

devoted self to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. Good morning, indeed.

We are picking up with day eight of our 21 days of discipleship devotional in the Bible

app. There's a link to that in the description if you guys want to follow along with us.

The scripture is all up in this one, so Tories, you can take it from here. Yes,

y'all, let's do it. Today's devotional is titled, Who's Your Daddy? Which is a funny title,

but anyways, let's jump into it. Says this. By this point, Jesus had had multiple dialogues

with the Pharisees. In John 8, the dispute centers around ancestry. Yeah, kind of odd. However,

Jesus brings a powerful truth to light in the midst of this conversation. In John 839,

we read, Abraham is our father. They answered, if you were Abraham's children, said Jesus,

then you would do what Abraham did. Wow, with this reference, Jesus reminds them that what Abraham

did was take God at his word, obeying and following him with no signs or rules to rely on,

just faith. The religious leaders of the day were acting in a way that was completely contrary

to the way their father figure did. When Jesus confronts them about it, they then claim they're

actually God's kids, not Abraham's. But here's the thing. If we say we're God's kids,

we have to take cues from him and listen to what he says. The religious leaders did not take

their cues from God. If they had, they would have begun to follow Jesus at the moment of his baptism.

God literally called down from heaven saying in Matthew 317, this is my son whom I love with him,

I am well pleased. Don't miss this. Who are you taking your cues from? Is it culture? Is it your

own ego? Is it another person? Or is it Jesus? What we base our decisions on and take our cues

from reveals who or what we trust the most. When we call ourselves disciples of Jesus,

we're saying we trust him with our lives. But do we live like that's true? Do we take what he

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