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today's devotional. Hey, what's up? Thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive. Wherever you are and

whatever you're currently doing, man, grateful you are making time for this.

I'm Mike Bro, and together we've been climbing a ladder in recent days.

And the ladder I'm talking about is found in a section of the New Testament known as the

Beatitudes.

They are part of an amazing teaching that Jesus gave on the hillside 2,000 years ago.

There's a crowd of people with needs and

desires like us who were gathered there, and he begins talking about the pursuit of happiness.

And he lays out, at least the way I see it, these progressive steps that lead to a deeply

fulfilling life, almost like rungs of a ladder. And we've climbed so far a step of honesty about our spiritual

poverty. Then we landed on a rung that saw us broken over the realization of our bankruptcy,

our need for forgiveness. Then on rung three, we humbly handed the control of our life over to God,

and we started a daily practice of hungering for him and staying honest, and stay and broken,

and stay independent, and stay independent and

stay in humble. And we talked about how those first four rungs are all inside out kind of things

that lead us to live the kind of transformed life that what Jesus was talking about when he said

blessed or supremely happy. He says blessed are the merciful. And we talked about how mercy is a cyclical kind of thing.

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