Well good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters who

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

We're picking back up with you, Morning Mercy, so that for the dude, Tori just can take

from here. Yes, y'all. Let's do it. Today's devotional says this. If you're God's child,

the gospel isn't an aspect of your life, it is your life. That is, it is a window through

which you look at everything. It has been a theme of my ministry, a sad recognition that has motivated

me to speak the things I speak and to write the things I write. Thousands and thousands of sincere

believers have a huge hole right smack dab in the middle of their gospel. They tend to see the

gospel as a thing of the past and a thing of the future. An entrance thing and an exit thing.

Sure, they celebrate the forgiveness that they have been given and they're welcome into God's

family and they look with hope to the future when they will be with the Lord forever, but they

don't understand the radical mind changing and life altering nowism of the gospel of the Lord

Jesus Christ. They don't grasp that when they came to Christ, it wasn't just their past and

future that changed. No, everything in their lives right here right now changed. For a believer,

nothing in his or her life is unchanged by the gospel. If you look at life from the vantage

point of the present benefits of the person, work, presence and promises of the Lord Jesus Christ,

nothing in your life looks the same. The Apostle Peter encourages people to live in a radical

new way because they have been given all things that pertain to life and godliness. So you and I

aren't left to our own maturity character, ingenuity, righteousness, wisdom or power. Not only that,

but the gospel redefines how we understand our whole story, how we think about the meaning of life,

how we understand the human struggle, where we get our identity, where we look for peace and security,

what we consider in life to be dangerous, what we see as successful living and so on.

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