Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. It's just me again today folks who's going to say thank you

for your patience and we also would ask for your prayers for Tori's health. We want to keep her

healthy so she can continue to keep the baby healthy so day definitely pray for her. We really

appreciate that and we are picking back up in our new morning mercies devotional and I'm just

going to go and jump on in. This one is all about holding on to hope and seeking security and it

says it is something every human being does. It separates us from the rest of creation. It causes us

much anxiety and much joy. It shapes the decisions and investments that we make. It calms our fears

or it leaves us scared and feeling alone. It turns all of us into theologians and philosophers

where we land and this pursuit shapes the way we look at life and interpret the things that

happen to us. It exposes the fact that we are all deeply spiritual beings. It is one of our most

foundational quests and as different as we are from one another and this way we are all the same.

We are all looking for something in which to place our hope. We all are in search of security.

I don't know if you've thought about this but there are only a few places to look for hope.

You can search for it horizontally thinking that something in creation will give you the security

piece and inner sense of well-being that you seek or you can seek it vertically and trusting

your life into the loving hands of your creator. People put their hope in creation all the time.

They seek satisfaction of the heart and the love of other human beings or in the success of their

careers. They think their hearts will be satisfied by a certain set of achievements or by a certain

catalog of possessions but none of these things has the power to satisfy your heart. They are all

meant to point you to the one place where your heart will find secure rest. You and I need to

face this reality that creation will never be our savior. So where is hope to be found?

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