Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. Good morning indeed. We

are picking up with a four of our don't waste your life devotion on the Bible app. There's

a link to that in the description of the podcast if you guys want to follow along with us.

And as always I'm going to read the scripture then Tor is going to pick up with the

Devo. Let's do it. The scripture is Psalms chapter 63 verse 3 and it says this,

your unfailing love is better than life itself. How I praise you. The devotional is titled

living to prove he is more precious than life. It says, if God is most glorified in us

when we are most satisfied in him, then living for the glory of God must mean that we live to

gladly make others glad in God. Our gladness and our pursuit of their gladness glorifies God.

And since gladness in God is the greatest and most lasting happiness pursuing it is also love.

Since the same joy in God both satisfies man and glorifies God. We never have to choose between

the motive to love people or glorify God by gladly pursuing the gladness of others in God even

at the cost of our lives. We love them and we honor God. This is the opposite of a wasted life.

To make others glad in God with an everlasting gladness, our lives must show that he is more

precious than life. Psalm 63 3 says, because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will

praise you. To do this we must make sacrificial life choices rooted in the assurance that magnifying

Christ through generosity and mercy is more satisfying than selfishness. I think you need to

read that again. Okay. To do this we must make sacrificial life choices rooted in the assurance

that magnifying Christ through generosity and mercy is more satisfying than selfishness.

If we walk away from risk to keep ourselves safe and solvent, we will waste our lives.

If Christ is an all satisfying treasure and promises to provide all our needs even through famine

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