Hello everyone. You are listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, and we are so excited to have you here with us.

Today, Rick is bringing a brand new series called Seeing Through God's Eyes to a close.

In this series, Rick Warren dives into the Bible to help us discover how God sees us and how we can start seeing

life from his perspective. All right, let's get right to Rick as he gives the final part of a message

called Seeing God's Purpose in My Problems. The Bible says God teaches people through suffering and uses distress to open their eyes.

Circle the word teaches.

That says problems are educational.

That God uses them to educate us.

Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.

And God says, I want to educate you through problems.

Some of you are very educated. You've had a lot of problems in your life. In fact, I want

everybody to turn to everybody else right now and say, I'm very educated. Go ahead, say that.

Turn to somebody and say, I'm very educated. All right.

And look at the next verse. The Bible

says in Psalm 11971, David

said, it was the best thing that could have happened to me,

for it taught me to pay attention to your laws.

You want to know why this crisis comes in your life?

The one you just went through this week or last week or whenever a long time ago.

It was a wake-up call that says, I want to teach you something.

It was the best thing that could have happened to me.

I could bring you stacks and stacks and stacks

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