Good morning, everyone. And welcome back to another mornings with the masters. We're

devoted ourselves to the Lord. Alien with you. Good morning, guys. Good morning, you guys.

I don't know why I did that. I feel like I was doing that, like, showing you guys what

devotional. We're doing it already. Well, we're doing new morning. We're just going to take

you from here. Yes, y'all. Let's do it. Today's devotional says this, God's agenda is change.

Your need is change. The promise of grace is change. The hope of eternity is the completion of

the work of change. We all tend to share in a big, bad, personal problem. It's one that doesn't

get much press or pulpit time. Yet this problem is a huge interruptor of our personal spiritual

development. If you have this problem, you won't be concerned that you have this problem precisely

because you have this problem. I confess that I think this is a big deal for me as well. The

problem is personal spiritual self satisfaction. The more I travel from church to church, the more

I engage with leaders, and the more I have opportunities to interview people in the seats.

The more I grow convinced that the true crisis in the modern evangelical church is not dissatisfaction,

it's the opposite. We're all too satisfied. We're all too satisfied with who we are, where we are,

and what we're doing. We're satisfied with a little bit of biblical literacy. We're satisfied with

occasional moments of ministry. We're satisfied with manageable debt that allows us to put a few coins

in the plate. We're satisfied that we've been married for a while and it doesn't look as if we'll

break up soon. We're satisfied with a bit of grasp on the theology of scripture. We're satisfied

with the faithful attendance that we can serve as of our churches. We're satisfied with quick

morning devotions. We're satisfied with a little ministry experience. We're satisfied that we don't

act out of most of our lust and we don't communicate most of our envy. We're satisfied that in our

disappointment with God, we don't walk away. We're satisfied that we can harness a good bit of our

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