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, 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, you know, the buffet.

And you go, well, I really don't want to fill up my plate. There might be something better.

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