Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the Masters.

We devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We are picking back up with new morning mercies,

and I'm just going to take it from here.

Also, and thank you for your prayers for health.

We are definitely on the men but the whole family is just kind of a little off so

Thank you for praying and keep on praying the devotional says this

There is a significant difference between amazement and faith.

God doesn't just want to blow your mind, he wants to rule your heart.

It is an important distinction, one that is not made frequently enough.

Faith surely does engage your brain but it is fundamentally more than that.

Faith is something that you do with your life. True biblical faith doesn't stop with a thought.

It radically rearranges the way that you approach everything in your life.

And amazement is what you experience when you are taken beyond the categories that you carry around to explain or define things.

Amasement is a step in the faith process, but there is a huge difference between amazement and faith.

Pretend you're standing next to me on a pier on the Jersey Shore.

We're looking at one of those amusement park contraptions that is essentially a 50 foot high slingshot into which they strap some otherwise sane human being and launch him back and forth over the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of the night.

Now that right amazes both of us, but we're not about to strap in and let ourselves be

launched into the night.

Amazed, yes, but we will not put our faith in that thing. In the same ways, you can be amazed by the grand sweep of the redemptive story and scripture and not be living by faith. You can be amazed by the labyrinth and logic of the

theology of the word of God and not be living by faith. You can be amazed by the great worship music you participate in every Sunday and not be living by faith.

You can be amazed by the love of your small group and not be living by faith. You can be amazed by the wonderful

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