Hey everyone, it's Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren.

So we're continuing with this series called Daring Faith, The Key to Miracles.

And in this series, you're learning how to have a bold, unshakable faith.

And so far, this series is giving all of us powerful tools to share our faith, a faith that gives you

courage to impact the world around you. Okay, here's Pastor Rick with part one of a message

called Daring to Commit. Your life is actually shaped by your commitments. We become whatever we are committed to. If you don't commit yourself to anything,

you become nothing in life. You are shaped by your commitments. Great people are just ordinary

people who've made a great commitment to a cause greater than themselves.

Nobody is naturally great. You're not naturally great. I'm not naturally great. We're just

normal ordinary people. People become great men or great women of God when they commit themselves

to something greater than themselves. You need a cause bigger than

you to live for. If the only thing you're living for is you, that's not a big enough reason

to get out of bed. Just call it in and stay in bed tomorrow. Instead, you need something bigger

than yourself to live for, which draws you out of yourself, which makes

you bigger than yourself, which brings out greatness in your life. We become whatever

we're committed to. Now the problem is a lot of people are afraid of making commitments.

And we see that in our society day we have a lot of people who don't

want to commit to anything. There's no loyalty in our nation really much anymore. And for a lot

of people, it's kind of like going down a buffet line. And the fear of commitment comes from

there might be something better a little bit later on. And so you stand there in front of the salad area, you know, at the first of the buffet, and you go, well, I really don't want to fill up my plate. There might be something better. And then you get a little bit further down in the, you know, the casseroles or whatever, and you go, well, there might be something better. And you get down to end

the meats and go, well, there might, you know, I'll wait for the desserts. You get on the end,

the desserts don't look together. Because you haven't committed, the end, you don't have anything

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