Hey everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope.

Now, we're going to continue our series today called Building My Life on Values That Last.

And Rick will press on and show us how we benefit when we apply the biblical principles

of trust, self-control, balance, respect, forgiveness, moral purity, fairness, honesty, and love to our

lives. I don't know about you, but I am so excited to hear what Rick shares today with part

one of a message called accepting responsibility. If I were to ask you today, what's your greatest

ability? I wonder what some of you

would say. You might say, you know, I'm good at mechanics, I'm good at math. Some of you

might say I'm good at sewing or surfing or channel surfing. But you say, well, I'm good at all of this. But I want to suggest to you this morning

that your greatest ability is responsibility. You say, huh? Yeah, your greatest ability is

responsibility. Responsibility is the ability to respond to life.

It's one of the greatest gifts that God has given you.

God created you and made you a human being, and what makes you a human is the ability to choose your response to life.

And so you can respond in many different ways to stress, to problems, to crises, to

opportunities, to relationships, and it's all your choice. A couple weeks ago, we talked about

how most of your life is out of your control. You didn't choose where you were born or when

you were born and all those different things. And you don't choose a lot of the circumstances and events that happened to you.

But you do have the freedom to choose how you react to life.

You do have the freedom to choose how you respond.

And because you have that choice, because you have the freedom to respond, and you are able to respond, you are response able.

You're responsible. Just as Justice Lewis Brandeis, who was one of the Supreme Court justices, once said that responsibility is the great developer.

It builds your character. It's what helps you grow. Churchill called it the price of greatness.

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