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

We are picking back up with new morning mercies and I'm just going to take it from here.

And it says this.

I've said it many, many times and I will say it more than once in this

devotional. Our problem is not our weakness. God's grace is always up to the task.

Our problem is our delusions of strength that keep us from seeking the grace that strengthens us in our weakness.

We just don't like to be weak. We don't like to think of ourselves that way.

We don't want others to see us that way. So we act as if we know things that we don't know,

and we don't ask the things that we don't know,

and we don't ask the questions that we actually need to ask.

We act as if we can handle things that we can't handle,

and we don't seek the help that's available.

We act as if we've conquered things that we have not conquered,

and we don't reach out for the help for that battle.

It is all a failed quest for the self-congratulatory glory of independence. But we are not

independent. None of us are. We are not created to be independent. We were formed

to be dependent on the one who made us and we were recreated in Christ to be dependent on his grace.

That's so good. God does not hold you to a standard of independent strength.

A lot of us didn't need to hear that today.

God does not hold you to a standard of your independent strength.

God does not expect of you what you do not have. He knows who you are. He is never

shocked or dismayed by your weakness. He has moved towards you in grace because you

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