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Day 2807 of the 7 day Bible verse challenge.

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Isaiah 64:7 NIV I sit here this morning staring out the window at a world enveloped in fog. Just a cool fall morning, but so many times in life there's a deeper message to be found if we just look for it. Fog is an obscurant that all of us recognize. It's a curtain that conceals the normal to which we're accustomed. But as much as we may recognize fog as it manifests atmospherically and environmentally, I fear we usually fail to notice it declare its presence spiritually. Sin exists as a fog within our hearts and minds. You see, sin tells us that we’ve found the way to everything we want while only leading us into the mist. It blinds us to the truth. It lures us into a laziness in which we don’t worry about what’s ahead and focus instead on only what’s right in front of us. And as we focus in on the here and now, we quickly give sway to our intense desires to make this life fun and exciting and comfortable. And as we get more of what our deceitful hearts crave, we slowly st...