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 indeed we're picking up

with day six of our the art of overcoming devotional and the Bible app. There's a link to that in

the description if you guys want to follow along with us and as always I'm going to read the

scripture then Tori's going to pick up with the divo. Let's do it. The scripture is joe but

chapter two verses seven through ten and it says this. So Satan left the Lord's presence and he

struck joe with terrible boils from head to foot. Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken

pottery as he sat among the ashes. His wife said to him, are you still trying to maintain your

integrity? Curse God and die. But Job replied, you talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only

good things from the hand of God and never anything bad? So in all this Job said nothing wrong.

Wow. Shots fired. Okay. The devotional is titled finding peace through acceptance and it says

this. Hearts don't just break they also mend. That's why one of the most important steps towards

closure is acceptance of loss. An emotional, mental, and even spiritual decision to make peace

with our loss and to make the most of our future. You may have heard of Job, the poor guy in the

Bible who lost just about everything he valued in a matter of days. Job is a fantastic model of

acceptance because he was completely transparent with his suffering. But he was also able to release

control to God. His acceptance was the natural result of recognizing God's sovereignty. He knew

where the line was between what he could control and fix and what he couldn't. We don't know how

long Job's suffering lasted. It was probably months at least, maybe years. But it did end. That's

one of the key points of the book. He persevered. He waited. He trusted. Simultaneously,

he suffered. He complained and he asked questions. Those things are not mutually exclusive. That's

good. Eventually God made it clear it was time to stop living in the past. He wanted Job to make

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