Good morning everyone and welcome to another mornings with the masters,

where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Today, we are jumping in again to our fave,

new morning, mercies, and let's do it let's be encouraged it says

this there is no need to be paralyzed by the opinions of another God gives you the ultimate tool of self-assessment, the mirror of

his word. Amen. We don't always read us or we don't always read it. It reads us. Right? Okay. Let's jump in.

It was 12 pages long, the kind of letter no one really wants to get.

I didn't want to read it, but I knew I had to.

She took me apart like a coroner during an autopsy.

Each paragraph was like a knife cutting into a different organ,

searching for disease. The judgment was harsh, harsh and unrelenting. The examples of

my failures in her eyes were many.

There was little grace to be found in those 12 pages.

When I got to the end of the letter, I felt that there was nothing left of me.

I sat at my desk stunned. I was her pastor, but she had no respect for me whatsoever.

I couldn't believe what I had read and I was paralyzed by the thought that others felt the same way.

I felt glued to the seat, unable to move without strength to continue.

The next morning was worse.

I woke up with a knot in the pit of my stomach. I wanted to run to quit. Now no

opinions of people should have that power but often they do. Without knowing

it we put our identity in our inner peace in the hands of the people around us.

We look to them for what no flawed human being will ever be able to deliver.

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