Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Today we continue on a journey through a powerful series called God's Amazing Promises. In the upcoming lessons, you'll discover some of the most profound promises that God has made to you. And these promises are not mere words. They are keys to a renewed life, inner peace,

and a hopeful future. But before we get started, have you ever felt you're made for something

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called God's promises about your future.

Now, part of God's plan and purpose for your life is he wants you to become like Jesus Christ.

Jesus is the model of perfect humanity.

God wants us to grow up like Christ.

He wants us to think like Christ, to feel like Christ,

to love like Christ, to serve like Christ, to be giving like Christ. Well, if God wants me to become

like Jesus, what is Jesus like? Well, in a word, in one word, it's this word, unselfish.

The whole goal of life is learning how to become more and more unselfish.

Because to be unselfish is love. And God wants you to be like him. God is love. So when you're

born, you are born as a baby totally selfish. As a baby, you're not thinking about anybody else.

It's me, me, me, I, I want it and I want it now.

You can't, nothing is more selfish than a brand new baby.

We coo and we ooh and they're, thank God they're cute,

but they're little selfish boogers. Okay?

All right.

And as only as they start growing up, they start learning how to share, and they have to be taught how to share.

Because it's selfishness.

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