Good morning everyone and welcome back to another Mornings with the Masters where we

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

we're picking up with new morning mercies and so without further ado Tories can take

over here. Yes yeah let's do it today's devotional says this. Facing disappointment and failure

don't be surprised you're still flawed and your world is still fallen. For this there's

grace. If you fail to take seriously what the Bible says about who we are and about the

nature of the world we live in you will live with unrealistic expectations. You'll be naive

when it comes to temptation and you'll find yourself regularly surprised and disappointed. Let's

examine what the Bible says about us and our world in this period of time between the already and

the not yet. Although God's work of redemption has begun you and I still live in a world that is

terribly broken and simply does not function in the beautiful way that God intended when he put

it together. No passage captures the current brokenness of our world better than Romans 8. Paul

employs three provocative phrases to capture this brokenness. Verse 20 says we are subjected to

futility. In verse 21 bondage to decay in verse 22 and the pains of childbirth. There is a constant

futility to life in a fallen world. Things just don't work right and no matter how hard you try

you can't escape the frustration of a world that is not operating properly. There is death and

decay all around us. People die. Things die. Dreams die. Relationships die. Physical creation dies.

Then there are times when the suffering is severe just like in the acute pain of childbirth.

Under the weight of all this brokenness Paul says that this world is groaning together.

Scripture calls you to be aware of the environment in which you live. The Bible also has

clear and humbling things to say about you and me. John says if we say we have no sin

we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. Yes the power of sin has been broken but the

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