You know, we really live in a world that's full of competing beliefs and values and choices,

and what you believe shapes how you live and ultimately who you become. But the good news is,

God hasn't left us to figure it all out alone. No. In fact, today on Pastor Rick's Daily

Hope, we're going to continue our series reframing your worldview, where Rick Warren unpacks

powerful truths from God's Word to help you see life clearly and live it with confidence and purpose.

Okay, here's Rick with part three of a message called How Did the World Get So Messed Up?

The Bible says in Job, Job was the wealthiest man of his time, and yet he says this,

I'm like a caravan lost in the desert searching for water. When you're disconnected from the source

of life, which is God, it leads to emptiness. It leads to thirst. And you don't know what's going

to fill that thirst. And it actually can lead to darkness. You're bumping around the dark because

you don't know where you're from and where you're going.

In fact, the Bible says in Ephesians 418, they've refused for so long to deal with God that they've lost touch not only with God, but with reality itself.

Now, that, friends, is not a pretty picture.

There's a lot of beautiful things in the world, and we can see them all around us. But let's just be realistic at the same time.

We live in a planet that's fallen.

So there is natural disaster and deformities, physical decay and death,

emotional distress and disappointment, relational distance between me and you and death, emotional distress and disappointment,

relational distance between me and you in discord,

and spiritual discontent and darkness.

It is no wonder that depression is of epidemic proportions in our world.

So here's my question.

How do you stay happy in a world like that?

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