This is Pastor Rick's Daily Home, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Well, today we continue with our series called The Keys to a Blessed Life.

In these lessons, Rick shares the practical steps found in Jesus' sermon on the Mount

that will help you live the hopeful and purpose-filled life God planned for you.

In just a few moments, we're going to tell you about Pastor Rick's brand new book called

Created to Dream. This life-changing book will help you discover and live out the amazing

dream God has just for you. To find out more, go to PastorRick.com right now while you listen to

today's broadcast, or just text the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4. Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren

with part two of a message called, How God Blesses Broken Hearts.

Now, the reason you have the ability to grieve is because you are made in God's image.

The Bible tells us that God grieves. The Bible tells us that God weeps. When he sees in humanity

on earth, he weeps. When God sees a cent, he weeps. When God sees wars, destroying people.

When God sees this planet being destroyed, God weeps. God grieves. And we're made in God's image.

And the Bible says God weeps with us. In other words, he's God is a suffering God and God is a

sympathetic God. He's not aloof. He's not authentic. He's standing, not standing on the

sidelines. He suffers with us. Look at this verse up here on the screen. Isaiah 53 verse 3 says this,

Jesus was a man of sorrows. Have you ever seen that verse? Jesus, it's out of Isaiah, it's prophecy.

It was a man of sorrows acquainted with bitterest grief. He knew suffering firsthand. So, when you come

to Jesus, it's not like Jesus goes, I have no idea what you're talking about. When your heart is

breaking and you're in pain, it's not like Jesus is going, I don't understand it. I don't get

that. Just buck up and put on a happy face. No, Jesus was a man of sorrows. He was acquainted with

grief. Let me just give you one example. There on your outline, when his friend Lazarus died, the

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