Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another mornings with the Masters for a

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

Sadly, we are finalizing or rounding out with day five of our confidence and calling

devotional on the Bible app. I've really enjoyed this devotional. It's fine. You know, we

may try to do it again later on this year, just kind of pick up on the things that we've

learned and kind of see if we've made any of these changes, because this has been really

great. Yeah, let it. Anyways, 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 Tor is going

to pick with the Devote. Let's do it. The first scripture is Psalms, chapter 37, verses

23 and 24. And it says this, the Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every

detail of their lives, though they stumble, they will never fall for the Lord holds them

by the hand. And the next scripture is 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verses 16 through 18.

And it says this, that is why we never give up though our bodies are dying, our spirits

are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won't last very

long, yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever.

So we don't look at the troubles we can see now, rather we fix our gaze on things that

cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see

will last forever. The devotional is titled Calling and Perseverance. And it says this,

so much of life is about persevering through pain and discomfort, keeping it going requires

grace and grit. Indeed, the more deeply we commit to engaging in God's mission to the world,

the grittier life will become. It will also yield more treasure and beauty than we could have

imagined. Pearls are formed when a piece of sand or grit becomes trapped in the shell of an

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