Good morning everyone and welcome back to the messy masterpiece podcast

with Chad and Tori happy Friday Friday where it all started y'all

super excited to be devoting ourselves to the Lord daily with you and we're rounding out this devotional

that we've been doing on the Bible app called the Voices and the Choices and

so if you want to follow along there's a link to it in the podcast description

I'm gonna go and read the scripture and then

Tori's gonna read the devotional. Let's do it. The scripture is Luke 11

verse 28 and it says Jesus replied but even more blessed are all who hear the word of God and obey it.

And the devotional today is titled The Voice Above All Voices. It says, we live the voice above all voices.

It says, we live in a noisy world

full of voices and choices.

But Jesus, our shepherd, calls us by name, and leads us in the paths that we should follow.

We are his sheep and we ought to be able to hear his voice.

He stands at the door of our hearts and knocks,

waiting for us to invite him into a relationship with him.

We must quiet the noise, lean in,

and choose to hear the voice above all other voices.

I wish that this was an easy proposition.

Our hearts are still too full of the clamor of the world and its false values.

Recognizing the true voice of the shepherd is not so easy if you are not in relationship with him.

We recognize the voice of our spouse on the phone, since we are in daily relationship with them.

It is a rich blessing to hear the voice of the one who knows us deeply and loves us unconditionally.

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