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

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

are rounding out with day five of our experiencing God's peace devotional in the Bible app. There's

a link to that in the description if you guys want to fall along with us. And I just have to say

that this is actually a really surprisingly nice devotional series that we did. I picked it

because I was like, okay, I think in a time where we all need peace, this would be good, but I

didn't think it would be that good. And so I've been really pleasantly surprised by it. It's just

been fun. I'm going to read the scripture. Torrey's going to pick up the Divo. That's good.

The scripture is John chapter 16 verse 33 and it says this, I have told you all of this so that

you may have peace in me. Here on earth, you will have many trials and sorrows, but take heart because

I have overcome the world. The devotional is titled peace doesn't equal perfection. As a follower of

Jesus, be comforted in the fact that your salvation brings you peace with God. And then with each day

that you follow Jesus and allow him to lead your life, you'll experience the peace of God.

But even when we have God's peace in our lives, it doesn't equate with perfection in the world

until we reside in our heavenly eternal home with God. We won't know or experience perfection.

So what causes us to think God's peace equals perfection on earth, our expectations.

A pastor said, if I'm going to live at peace, I've got to surrender my expectation of perfection.

Peace isn't found in a place or in a set of circumstances that are problem-free.

While earth is our home, we will have hardship and difficulties. We'll go through seasons where

the pain is intense because pain accompanies struggling relationships, struggling economies,

and struggling health crisis. These outside pressures don't have the power to take away God's

perfect peace through Jesus Christ. It's been said, it's not that He delivers me from it, it's that He

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