Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the master for devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We are no longer picking up with our upside down

kingdom devotion on the Bible app.

We're gonna pick up with new morning mercies but just for

transparency sake I'm not going to like I struggled throughout the whole

devotional I just had trouble reading it I I would take me 10 to 15 minutes to try to read it for the devotional, then let alone like can I keep my train of thought and share?

So it almost felt like more performative on my end and I do think that there were some

amazing insights coming from the devotional and some transformation absolutely but

it's got to this point where I was just like you know what I need to go to where I feel

comfortable that way God has room to speak instead of me just fumbling through my

words this whole time so just wanted to be a little transparent there I'm sure you

all don't mind you obviously can continue it on your own. I'm sure it's very impactful, but I'm going to jump back into new morning mercies, which I feel very like in tune with. It says this. Here's the bottom line when it comes to moral candor.

Denial is rooted in fear and confession is rooted in hope. You cannot embrace the radical hope of the person and work of the

Lord Jesus Christ and make sense out of our drive to present ourselves as less than

needy. But that instinct is alive and well in many of us. When faced with

our sin we immediately excuse ourselves or shift the blame. When our

consciousness bother us, we hide the wrong that we have done

like Adam and Eve hiding from God in the garden, or we try to convince ourselves that

what we did was not so bad after all. Now because God's world is so big, there will always be places to hide and because you live in a world that

doesn't operate as God intended there will always be people and things to

blame but it is all one big sad, irrational lie.

Why would you and I work so hard to hide or deny what has been fully, completely, and internally forgiven.

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