Good morning everyone and welcome back to the Messy Masterpiece podcast which had in

Tori happy Saturday or whatever day it is you're listening to the special Saturday episode

episode episode episode that was like one little echo button I just had turned on anyways

thank you for tuning in Tori and I are excited to do our devotional and then of course jump

into our long form episode where the long form portion of this episode is going to be on what

babe on what we wish we knew back in the day back in the day and these things can also apply to

present day yeah so it's good that we learn these lessons and so we're excited to share those with

you and of course we're going to do that for maybe 10 to 15 minutes and then we're going to continue

that conversation over on our page around the link will be in the description of this podcast

yes and yes it's how like people from New Zealand and Australia say yes yes yeah pretty much

yes yes yeah yes it's not the same just anyways let's jump into today's devotional okay you guys

today we're reading out of a different devotional we're actually reading out of one of

Chad's favorites new morning mercies by Paul David trip and it says grace frees you from the

dissatisfying claustrophobia of your individualism to enjoy the fulfilling freedom of loving and

serving God individualism is not freedom it is bondage living for yourself is not liberty it is a

self-imposed prison doing what you want to do when you want to do it and how you want to do it

has never been the good life it has never and it never leads to anything good making up your own

rules and following your own paths lead to disaster God calls you to himself and commands you to

follow him so that by grace he may free you from you in calling you to obedience God is not

robbing you of liberty but is leading you to the only place where liberty can be found to understand

this you must look at life from the vantage point of creation and the fall into sin as creator God

designed you to live a dependent life you were built for a life of loving worshipful dependency

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