Hey, thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Rick

Warren. And today, we're continuing our series called The Habits of Happiness. In this series,

Rick dives into the Book of Philippians and helps you discover God's path to true and lasting happiness.

All right, we're ready to get into today's message.

Here is the final part of five daily habits for happiness.

So the second habit is I remember what matters most.

Tom's going to come and talk about the third habit for happiness.

The third habit is get to know Jesus better.

Get to know Jesus better.

You should start every morning when you wake up saying,

Lord, if I don't get anything else today, anything else done,

I want to get to know you a little bit better.

I want to love you a little bit more.

Listen, you were made. I was made to live in relationship with God. And if I think I can be joyful without getting to know him better, the thing I was made for, I'm just fooling myself. A lot of you, you've had a taste of joy here or there, and you're just reaching for it all the time. Where is the joy found in our lives? It's found in the number one thing we were created for, getting to know God a little bit

better. Paul discovered that. He says in Philippians 310, I want to know Christ and the power of his

resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his suffering, becoming like him in his death so that somehow

I might be raised to life. So it's this thing of knowing Christ. And you've got to understand

the difference between knowing about someone and knowing someone. He says, I want to know Christ.

I mean, knowing about someone, I know about Justin Bieber. I know about Kim Kardashian. I know about those people. But I don't know Christ. I mean, knowing about someone, I know about Justin Bieber. I know about

Kim Kardashian. I know about those people, but I don't know those people. I know my wife. I know my

kids because I've spent time with them. I have a relationship with them. Paul says, I know Christ

because I've spent time with him. I have this relationship with him. I love this in the amplified version.

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