Well, good morning everyone and welcome back to the messy masterpiece podcast with Chad and Tori. Hi. Hi. I just realized we can't have Chick-fil-A today.

Why do you mention that? Now I'm bummed. Yeah, I'm bummed too. I started really excited and I was thinking about Chick-fil-A and then I realized we can't have it today. Wow babe. Thanks for that.

Thank you.

Anyways, a couple little updates. We posted a really fun long form episode yesterday on things that we wish we knew whenever we were younger.

And we continued that conversation over on our Patreon as well. And we also read out a different devotional, which we're going to also be reading out of today called New Morning Mercies by Paul David Trip.

So let's just jump on in, babe. Yes, let's do it. So this is for May 30th. It says, no need to carry the burden of ownership of your life today. You've been bought with a price.

So you do not belong to you anymore.

You and I have been freed from carrying the burden of all the regrets of the past of our needs and the present and of all the unanswered questions of the future.

We have been freed from living with the anxiety that comes from thinking that we have no greater resources than we can provide for ourselves.

You and I have been freed from the stress of thinking that we have to have it all figured out on our own.

We have been freed from worrying about needing to control things that are actually beyond our control.

You and I don't need to ring our hands wondering what is coming unexpectedly down the road.

We don't have to fear that we won't have enough or that will come up short.

You and I don't have to panic at the thought that in the end we will fail and be left alone.

We have been freed from the burden of finding our own way and writing our own rules.

As God's children, we simply do not have to carry any of these burdens. Why? Read on.

You don't have to worry about these things for one simple transformative reason.

You don't belong to you anymore. You have been bought with a price, so your life is now under new ownership and new management.

The God who now owns you is committed to keep you and care for you. He is committed to supply everything you need.

The God who owns you is in personal and careful control of every situation, location, and circumstance of your life.

He covers your past with his grace. He protects, provides for, and empowers you in the present.

And he holds every aspect of your future and his sovereign and gracious hands.

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