Good morning everyone and welcome to another mornings with the masters, where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Today, we are back in New Morning Mercies, and I read the first line, so I feel like it's going to be really good so let's just

jump on in and be encouraged because he is zealous to rescue you from you

God's care can be violent. He rips you from what is dangerous to give you what is better.

When you think of God's care, what picture comes to your mind?

When you consider God's grace, what mental images does the term grace conjure up?

Could it be that there are times in your life when you are

crying out for the grace of God even though you're getting it? God's grace

does not always come in the form of comfort and encouragement.

His care doesn't always mean relief and release.

Could it be that the care that we often cry out for is not the care that we really need. There was a cycle in the life

of the children of Israel that is very instructive. Remember that they were people

just like us and the accounts about them were written for our example and instruction,

so that we would not fall into the same errors.

In grace, God recorded for us their struggles with grace so that we would esteem and run toward

the grace we've been given.

Carefully examined the description that follows. I'm reading out of Judges 2

verses 11 through 19. And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the bales, so the other gods.

And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other

gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them and bowed down to them and they

provoked the Lord to anger so the anger of the Lord was

kindled against Israel and he gave them over to plunderers who plundered them

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