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

For devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

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

And if you wonder, I was debating this to you all,

because I don't know if you all even laugh at this.

We're just here to devote ourselves to the Lord, right?

That's what we're here to do.

Well, I walked into our film room,

and it smells like a hamster right now. There's a very distinct smell of like a hamster cage. My brother and I had hamsters growing up and like I'm like oh

do we have some type of like rodent mouse rat hamster living in this room? What happened? Anyways, I just came in here and I was

transported back to me being, you know, seven years old with little hamsters or gerbils whatever

anyways let's pick up with this devotional but you all know that smell if you've

been around hamsters you guys know that smell anyways theways the devotional says this.

The purpose of the cross is to completely decimate your loyalty to the most seductive and powerful of all idols, the idols of self.

You see in the wines of a little boy, you see in the entitlement of the teenager, you see in the

needless argument of the married couple over something unimportant, you see in the bitterness of the old man.

None of us has escaped this disease. It infects all of our hearts. It is the reason for so much of the brokenness, angst, and pain of the human

community. It is the foundation of so much unhappiness in generations of war. It is a personal and moral disaster, yet it seduces us all. Its power

draws all of us in. We see it in others and deny it in ourselves. Ooh, that'll preach. We see it in others and deny it in ourselves. Ooh, that'll preach.

We see it in others and deny it in ourselves.

It makes for uncomfortable family moments, friendship disloyalty,

and violence in the streets. It makes us envious and

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