Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the master.

For devote ourselves to the Lord, daily with you.

We are picking back up with new morning mercies,

and I just got to prep you up, okay, I'm gonna prep.

I'm gonna prep you up for this one.

Are you ready to get convicted?

Because I am.

It's a weird thing to get ready for, but I kind of preemptively read this one a little bit.

I didn't read the whole thing, but I just saw a few little bits and I'm like oh yeah this is gonna be a good one anyways there's a link to the new morning mercies Devo in the description if you guys ever want to follow along and we're just going to jump on in. This is what it says.

Never forget that what God required you couldn't do. Christ did it for you. His grace is your hope. In some way it is true of us all. We want to

swindle ourselves into thinking that we are righteous enough to be accepted in the

eyes of God. Maybe for you it is

look at how much money I give the charity or look at how hospitable I am or look at the

level of my theological knowledge or look at how often I share the gospel with others or

look at what a good marriage I have or look how successful my business is or look at how I've

resisted pornography or adultery or look at the fact that I homeschool my children or look how I never curse or swear.

Look at how many short-term mission trips I've been on.

Look at how consistent my personal devotions are, called out,

look at my willingness to lead a small group, etc.

You and I tend to want to point to anything we can prove that we are not law breakers but we are

lawkeepers. Yet the whole argument of the Bible is that if we are able to keep the law

with perfection and consistency Jesus would not have had to come. The sad reality is that alone

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