Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Your mind is the greatest gift God has given you. That's why today we continue with a series called

rethinking your life.

In these lessons, Rick shares nine biblical pillars

we need to reshape our minds so that we can become more like Jesus Christ.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick with Part 1 of a message called Changing How I Think About Pain.

We're going to continue in our series that we're calling

rethinking your life.

We've been in it now for a number of weeks

and we've been talking about how to learn to think like God thinks, learning

to think from his point of view.

That's called wisdom.

When you think from God's point of view instead of yours, that's called wisdom.

Now changing how you think, as we've talked about in the past

several weeks is called repentance. It's the word metanoia change your mind. Anytime

you change your mind from thinking the way you thought about something to the way God thinks about it is called repentance.

Now so far, we've looked at changing how you think about a number of big issues in your life, like you think about God and how we think about

sin and how we think about temptation and in our last message we looked at how we

think about discouragement from God's viewpoint. Today I want us to look about about the

topic of changing how you think about pain,

how you think about pain, how you think about pain.

One of the most perplexing questions that people ask is why is

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