Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another mornings with the Masters. We're

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

a loss. We are here with another new Morning Mercy's devotional. I do think that tomorrow

we'll likely pick up with a new Bible at plan and we'll do a few of those, but we've been loving these.

They're just so good. Yeah, they're so good. And Tories, we can take them here. Let's do it.

Today's devotional says this, if you have quit being defensive and are now willing and humbly

approachable, you know that transforming grace has visited you. Wow, just dropped that off

real quick. It started in the Garden of Eden and we have been committed to it ever since.

We all point the finger of blame and we all work to convince ourselves that the party to blame

is not us. Adam pointed his finger at Eve and Eve pointed her finger at the serpent. Neither one

of them accepted blame. Yes, it is true. There have been generations and generations of finger

pointers ever since. You see, when you've done something wrong, it's not natural to look inside

of yourself for the cause. Sin makes us all shockingly self-righteous. It makes us all committed

self-excusors. Somehow, some way, we all buy into the delusion that our biggest problems live

outside of us, not inside us. That's fire. We all have very active inner lawyers who rise at our

defense in the face of any accusation of wrong. We are all very skilled at presenting the logic

of the argument that what we have done says more about the flawed people and dysfunctional things

around us than it does about us. When our consciences bother us because of the faithful convicting

ministry of the Holy Spirit, we are all tempted to dodge blame by locating the cause elsewhere.

We all tend to be much more concerned about the sin of others than we are about our own. But John

says in 1 John 1 8, if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

Because accepting blame is not natural, it takes rescuing, transforming grace to produce a humble,

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