Well, hello everyone, and welcome to another mornings with the Masters, where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Today we are back in New Morning Mercies, and I just read the first sentence.

I think it's going to be a spicy one so let's just jump on in it says

this laziness is rooted in self-love it's taking ourselves off the hook, opting for the comfortable instead of the best.

Grace isn't lazy.

I'm already convicted so there's that. Let's just keep on reading. It's hard to hear. Yep. We want to think it applies to others and not us.

It's bad news that we need, but don't really want to consider.

Here it is. As long as sin lives inside us, laziness will be an issue for us all.

Before you quit reading and skip to the next devotional, let me explain.

2 Corinthians 515 says that Jesus came so that those who live might no longer live for themselves.

Embedded in this phrase is a diagnostic that applies to every person who has ever lived.

Paul is arguing here that the coming of and sacrifice of Jesus

were necessary because the DNA of sin is selfishness.

Sin causes me to ignore God's existence in his rightful claim

on every area of my life.

Because God is not in his rightful place in my living that is in the center of it all I then

insert myself in that place my life becomes all about me. The borders of my concern go little

further than my concerns for me. I reduce my focus down to the small space of my

wants, my needs, and my feelings in ways that really do shape my living.

I make it all about me. The desires of my heart are gobbled up by my ease, my comfort, my pleasure and my success.

I want what I want and when I get what I want I'm happy.

Now because as a sinner I tend to make life all about me.

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