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devotional. All right. Good morning, everybody. Good evening. Good afternoon. It's kind of

sounds like Jim Carrey in the Truman Show, doesn't it? Whatever time it is, wherever you are, thanks for joining us for a daily dose of encouragement

and hope.

My name is Mike Bro, and each day we're to spend a little time in God's Word together, just

allowing him to transform us into his best version of us.

And we're hanging in a chapter of the Bible called Romans 12, just taking a small

chunk of a time and learning together what it means to live the kind of life that Jesus

once described is life to the full, the kind of distinctive life that reflects the goodness

and the love of God. When I think of a distinctive life, I think of a time that I took a bunch

of high school students on a canoe trip.

Nothing says disaster quite like high school students and canoes.

But before we got started, the guide kind of gave us a briefing on safety stuff.

You know, what to do if you happen to turn your canoe over, which is going to happen, swamp the canoe, you know, lose your life check.

He's briefing us on all that kind of stuff he lose your life check. All the kinds of, he's

briefing us on a lot of kind of stuff. And once he got done with the safety briefing, he looked

at this captive audience of high school students. He said, listen to me. People that canoe this

river, the easy way is just to go downstream. And if you go downstream, you just go like with everybody else, where everybody else goes.

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