Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning's with the Master's for

we'd vote ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. Good morning, indeed.

We're picking up a day three of our killing comparison devotional in the Bible app. There's

a link to that in the description if you guys want to follow along with us. And the

description is all up in this one so Torchers can take it from here. Yes, yeah, let's do it.

Today's devotional says this. Our focus verse is one that gets said constantly, but I believe we

constantly miss just how profound what is being said actually is. Walk with me for a moment.

Jeremiah one five says, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born,

I set you apart. I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. This verse is often used to

support the idea that life begins in the womb, but if you pay attention to it, it says something

much deeper. It says before we were formed in the womb, God knew us. In other words, before

the sperm even met the egg before conception, God knew us. God set us apart before we were born.

In other words, there was purpose on our identity before we were conceived. How incredible is that?

But despite the miraculous wonder of truth, many of us are born originals and spend our lives

as duplicates because of toxic comparison. Oh my, you got to reread that.

Despite this miraculous wonder of truth, many of us are born originals and spend our lives as duplicates

because of toxic comparison. I'm no exception. I spent many years chasing duplication because of

toxic comparison. So much so that I spent a hefty sum of money on a surgical procedure to get a

booty. Yep, you read that right. As a black woman, my flat backside was often the source of ridicule

and jokes growing up. So when I got old enough and financially stable enough to afford it,

I decided to fix the problem surgically. But there was one big problem. While on the flight to

Los Angeles to get the procedure done, I heard the Lord say, no, no. If I wanted you to have a booty,

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