Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters.

We're devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We are picking back up with your morning mercies, and I'm just going to take it from here.

It says this, I saw it again and again in counseling. Maybe it was a husband and

wife, an angry teenager, a single person who had lost her way, or a pastor who had

gotten himself into trouble.

For all of the vast differences in the situations and struggles,

they shared a common theme.

All of these people thought they knew themselves,

but they didn't. They all thought that they saw themselves with

accuracy but they didn't they all wanted me to agree with the assessments they had

made of themselves but I couldn't They all suffered from the same disease, but they denied it.

It didn't take long for me to realize that I was experiencing firsthand a universal human condition that the Bible talks about. It's called spiritual

blindness. Sin blinds and because it does the sin inside me keeps me from seeing me

with clarity.

That's good.

Sin is self-exusing.

Sin is self-righteous and others blaming.

Sin is self-attoning.

It easily rationalizes away my wrongs.

Sin allows me to feel all right about what God says is very wrong.

The personal sight system that God wired into every human being has been terribly broken by sin.

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