Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another mornings with the Masters. We're a

devoted self to the Lord, daily with you. Good morning, you guys. We are picking up with

day two of our renamed devotional in the Bible app. There's a link to that in the description

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

then towards going to pick up with the Devo. Let's do it. The scripture is second Corinthians

chapter 5 verses 17 through 19, and it says this, this means that anyone who belongs to Christ

has become a new person. Their old life is gone and a new life has begun. All of this is a gift

from God who brought us back to Himself through Christ and God has given us this task of reconciling

people to Him. For God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. No longer counting people

sins against them, and He gave this wonderful message of reconciliation. The devotional is

titled your new identity, and it says this, but they made me do it. Oftentimes when you correct a

child, you will hear such a response. Why? They want to divert attention and blame away from themselves.

While we know no one made the child do something wrong, a misguided desire influenced the child's

behavior and made it difficult to do the right thing. In the same way, before our faith in Christ,

we didn't have the ability to be righteous. We could only choose to live the way that seemed

right to us, and in many cases, that involved some kind of sin. Before Christ, our identity is

corrupted. However, once we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior, we take on a new identity.

The old way of doing things has passed away. We are made new through receiving what Jesus did on

the cross. When we are reconciled to God, our identity is no longer that of a sinner. Instead,

we are called children of God. We no longer have to say, he made me do it. Now we can say, God

made me new. In freedom, we can live out our new life and identity. There are times in our lives

when we fail and go back to our old ways of doing things. Sometimes old habits die hard. However,

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