Good morning

the masters where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

It's just me again today folks, sweet Tory and

maybe Micah fell asleep and I am not gonna wake them up.

We were picking back up in the new morning mercy's devotional, my favorite.

And just as a reminder, these can get very heady, but they're equally as heartfelt. I'm going to jump in. You were created to be dependent. God

welcomes your dependency with his grace. So why would you want to go it on your own?

Wrapped into this devious temptation of the Serpent in the Garden were two foundational

lies.

These lies have been believed somehow, some way, by every person who has ever lived.

If you're a parent, you've seen the acceptance of them in your children from a very early age.

The first full lie is the lie of autonomy. This slide tells you that you are an independent human, that your life belongs to you and that you have the right to live life as you please. It is an attractive,

very attractive and seductive lie. Believe in this lie makes a little child protest when he's told to go to bed or to eat his peas.

However, the doctrine of creation destroys the lie of autonomy. Think with me. Creation depicts ownership. I'm a

painter on the side. Once I have composed, painted, and completed a painting, it belongs to me because I made it. painted and it is mine because I created it. And since God created you and he created me we belong to him.

We don't own our mentality or our spirituality or our

emotionality or psychology or personality or

even physicality.

We are not independent beings and we do not have a natural right to do with our physical and spiritual

selves whatever we desire to do.

Autonomy is a life-destroying lie. The second lie is the lie of self-sufficiency. This lie tells you that

you have everything within yourself to be what you're supposed to be and to do

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