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. Good morning, indeed.

We're picking up with a new devotional Bible app titled The Out of Balance Believer.

And I think this will be a nice little kind of interruption to all those wonderful new

morning mercies, devotions that we've done recently. And now this one will kind of target

into one specific thing. But anyways, there's a link to that in the description if you

guys want to follow along with us. And as always, I'm going to read the scripture

then towards going to pick up with a divot. Let's do it. The first scripture is first

Peter, chapter five, verse eight, and it says this, stay alert, watch out for your great

enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. And

the next scripture is Isaiah chapter 40, verse 29. And this is this, he gives power to

the weak and strength to the powerless. So the devotional starts out with the amplified

version of first Peter five eight. And I'm going to read it because some of the wording

I think is important. It says, be well balanced, temperate, sober of mind, be vigilant and

cautious at all times for that enemy of yours, the devil roams around like a lion roaring

and fierce hunger, seeking someone to seize upon and devour. So if you're like me, you've

read or heard today's scripture written by Peter a thousand times, it is great advice

and it is the focus of many sermons, Bible studies, and devotions. I wonder, however,

how many of us understand what being well balanced really means? There was a time when

I thought being well-balanced meant eating right, exercising, drinking water and getting

plenty of rest. While these contribute to balance living, they are not absolute. Balance

is far more complex than watching what we put in our mouths or how much physical activity

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