Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning 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 day three of our bouncing back from disappointment devotional in the

Bible app. There's a link to it in the description of the podcast if you all want to fall along

with us. And as always, I'm going to read the scripture and then Tori's going to pick

it with a divo. Let's do it. The scripture is Psalms chapter 30 verse 5. And it says this,

for his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime, weeping made last through

the night, but joy comes with the morning. The devotional says, if you think about it, the

lone ranger is a misnamed hero. He's brave, morally pure and strong, but he never fights

his battles alone. Tonto is always there as a loyal partner and companion. To take it

a step further, how sad would it be if the lone ranger really was a one man operation?

The world's most famous cowboy might never have made it through the first movie. In fact,

every great movie hero has a sidekick or a partner. Batman has Robin, Sherlock Holmes,

has Watson, and whoever heard of Kirk without Spock. The Bible also has some famous duos. Moses

relied on Aaron. David's best friend was Jonathan, and Ruth was the best daughter-in-law Naomi

could have ever hoped for. However, things get a little tricky when we get to Jesus. Jesus

never had a sidekick. He did have 12 disciples, three of whom he favored, but none of them quite

fit as a companion in the same sense as the others named above. He was their leader. They

called him Rabbi and Lord, but never brother. So does that make Jesus a lone ranger? Not at all.

He stayed closely connected to and talked regularly with the father, who saw him through

the agony of Gethsemane and the passion of the cross. He relied on the Holy Spirit to

see him through Satan's temptations and the wilderness. So what can we learn from all of this?

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