Good morning, everyone. And welcome back to another morning with the masters where we

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

We are picking up with our live on a purpose devotional without further ado. We're just

going to jump on in. Yes, y'all. Let's do it. Today's verse is Philippians 2 verse 3 and

it says, it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

The devotional is titled, at least you're not plankton. We have a saying in my family, at least you're

not plankton. Crazy, right? It's what we say when something bad happens or someone has a high

stress, the world hates me kind of day. It's our own unique take on the at least you're not that guy

saying because plankton are pretty much the lowest of the low, right? Seriously, just google it.

I had been saying this quote for a while when one day I felt the spirit of God breathe a question

in my spirit. What if you were plankton? Could you still find purpose and passion? Are plankton

really the lowest of the low? I sense that God was trying to teach me something. So I set out to

understand as much as I could about these microscopic organisms called plankton. First, I found that

the word plankton comes from the Greek words, planktos, which means wanderer. So plankton are

wanders. Kind of like you and me. I also learned that unlike other fish, some type of plankton swim

vertically. This may not seem like a big deal until you understand that swimming vertically enables

plankton to provide about 90% of the ocean's photosynthesis. Let me give you a little science

refresher. Photosynthesiseducation.com, yes, there's a whole website dedicated to it, says that

photosynthesis is the process that plants use to make two important things, food and oxygen.

I also learned that photosynthesis is so essential to life on earth that most living organisms,

including humans, cannot survive without it. Not only that, these little plankton guys are also

providing 50% of the oxygen you're breathing right now. What's my point? The world of the sea is so

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