Good morning everyone and welcome back to another Mornings with the Masters where we

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

you all enjoyed the past few devotional so much, first off love the comments, we're actually going

to pick back up with new morning mercies so torches can take it from here. Let's do it. Today's

devotional says this. If God intended for all the days of your life to be easy, they would be

no. In grace he intends for your days to be his tools of refinement. I am deeply persuaded that many

of us struggle with questions of God's goodness, faithfulness and love not because he has been

unfaithful to any promise in any way, but because we simply are not on his agenda page.

Our agenda, our definition of what a good God should give us is a life that is comfortable,

pleasurable and predictable, one in which there's lots of human affirmation and an absence of

suffering. But consider God's agenda as it's revealed in the following passages. James 1-2-4 say

this. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds. For you know that the

testing of your faith produces steadfastness and let steadfastness have its full effect that you

may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 1 Peter 1 6 and 7 and I'm going to read from the

Living Translation says this. So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you

must endure many trials for a little while. These trials will show that your faith is genuine.

It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold, though your faith is far more precious than

mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and

glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. Romans 5-1-5.

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus

Christ. Through Him, we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand,

and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings,

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