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

We're devoted to the Lord daily with you.

It's just me again today, folks.

Sweet tea is resting, and so, yeah, we're picking back up a new morning mercies,

and this is what it says.

If you mourn the fallenness of your world rather than curse its difficulties

you know that grace has visited you. Life in this terribly broken world is hard.

You are constantly dealing with the frustration of this world not operating the way God

intended. You are always facing the unexpected. Almost daily you are

required to deal with something you wouldn't have chosen for your life, but it's

there because of the location where we live.

Life right here right now is like living in a dishevelled house

that has begun to fall down on its own foundation.

It's still a house, but it doesn't function as it was meant to. The door

constantly gets stuck, the plumbing occasionally works properly, you are never

sure what's going to happen when you plug an appliance in,

and it seems that the roof leaks even when it's not raining.

So it is with the world that you and I live in.

It really is a broken down house. Now there are

really only two responses we can have to the brokenness that complicates all of

our lives, cursing or mourning. Let's be honest, cursing is the more natural

response. We curse the fact that we have to deal with flawed people. We curse

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