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. In case you're wondering why Tory's laughing, I'm still rocking on this rocking chair.

It's very therapeutic.

Anyways, we're picking back up a new or numeracy,

so Tori's just gonna take it from here.

Yes, you guys, let's do it.

Today's devotional says this.

You were created to be dependent.

God welcomes your dependency with his grace.

So why would you want to go in on your own?

Wrapped into this devious temptation of the Serpent in the Garden were two foundational

lies.

These lies have been believed somehow, some way, by every person who has ever lived. If you're a parent you've seen the

acceptance of them and your children from a very early age. The first lie is

the lie of autonomy. This lie tells you that you are an independent human, that your

life belongs to you, and that you have the right to live your life as you please. It is an attractive and seductive lie.

Believing this lie makes a little child protest when he's told to go to bed or eat his

peas. However, the doctrine of creation destroys the lie of autonomy.

Think with me.

Creation depicts ownership. I am a painter by avocation. Once I have composed, painted, and completed a painting, it belongs to me because I made it. You can buy it from me or I can gift it to you, but until I relinquish it, it is

mine because I created it. Since God created you and me, we belong to him. We don't own our mentality, our spirituality, our

emotionality, our psychology, our personality, or our physicality.

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