Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning's with the masters where we

devote ourselves to the Lord, daily with you. Good morning, guys. Good morning, indeed.

We're picking back up a new morning in Mercy's today. And this one can get a little wordy.

So definitely hang in there with us. It's so good. But if you need to rewind it, feel

free to rewind it to catch your breath or your thought. Yes, for sure. Let's jump on in.

Today's devotional says this. You can't hear him, but he's wiser. You can't see him, but

he's more faithful. You can't touch him, but he's nearer than whatever else you'd trust.

It is one of the most amazing statements of what only grace can do. On the surface, it

doesn't make any sense. If it were not rooted in the most important fact of the universe

that you could ever consider, you would call the people involved crazy. It marks the

fundamental dividing line of all human beings. The Apostle Peter is talking about believers

living between the already and then not yet when he says of their relationship to Jesus,

so you have not seen him. You love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him,

and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome

of your faith, the salvation of your souls. Now, allow yourself to consider the radical

nature of what this passage says about the deepest motivations of the hearts of God's

people. They have connected their deepest love, belief, joy, and faith to someone they

have never seen, heard, or touched. They have staked the hopes and dreams of their lives

to this invisible one. Their relationship to him is one of life-altering love. When they

think of him, they experience joy. Joy so deep that it cannot be expressed. If it were

not for the fact that the ultimate fact of human existence, the fact that gives meaning

to every other fact, is the existence, character, and plan of God. None of this would make any

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