Good morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Good morning you guys.

We are picking up with day four of our live no lies devotion to the Bible out there's a link to that in the

description of the podcast if you guys want to follow along with us and as always I'm gonna read

the scripture then Tori's gonna pick up with the devo let's do it the

scripture is first Timothy chapter 1 verses 11 through 13 and it says this

that comes from the glorious good news entrusted to me by our blessed God. I think Christ Jesus, our Lord, who has given me strength to do his work.

He considered me trustworthy and appointed me to serve him even though I used to blaspheme the name of Christ.

In my insolence, I persecuted his people, but God had mercy on me because I did it in ignorance and

unbelief. The devotional is titled Living at Odds with reality.

Dallas Willard wrote in hearing God,

we truly live at the mercy of our ideas.

The ideas that we believe in our minds and then let into our bodies give shape to the trajectory of our souls.

Put another way, they shape how we live and who we become.

When we believe truth, that is ideas that correspond to reality,

we show up to reality in such a way that we flourish and thrive.

We show up to our bodies, to our sexuality, to our interpersonal relationships,

and above all to God himself in a way that is congruent with the Creator's wisdom

and good intentions for His creation. As a result we tend to be happy. But when we believe lies, ideas that are not

congruent with the reality of God's wise and loving design. Then tragically, open our bodies to those lies

and let them into our muscle memories,

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