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, everyone. We

are picking back up in our live-on-purpose devotional without further ado. We're just going to go and

jump on in. Yes, y'all. Let's do it. Today's verse is Romans 8.19 and it says,

for the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

The devotional's title to turn up the contrast and it says,

One night I was at a conference and the speaker said something that really hit my core.

She said that as believers, we are called to be people of contrast. I think she meant

was that we are living as people of light. Our lives will look different from the lives of the

people who are living according to the world's values. When I think of contrast, I think of the

edit function when picking out a photo filter. We spend a lot of time editing photos to get the

contrast to the right percentage, even though no one would ever notice the difference in our pictures

unless we turn the contrast all the way up. This made me think about how I would spend so much time

worrying about things I couldn't change. Filling my mind with things that aren't positive,

watching shows that aren't beneficial to me, and listening to music that didn't leave me inspired.

So I started weeding those things out of my life. Instead, I spend more time investing in things

that made me grow, learning from people who are way ahead of me on life's journey, listening

to things that inspire me, and reading things that change my perspective in a positive way.

I challenge you to keep a log of the ways you spend your time this week and ask yourself for

each item. Is this helping me live the life I want to live? Is this helping me grow?

Then think of the ways you want to grow, the direction you want to go. What good contrast do you

want to make in the world? Do you want to be generous in a world that withholds? Kind and a world

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