Good morning. Welcome to the morning motivation. Thanks for being here. This whole week is about

suffering. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why is there suffering? How do we make sense of this?

What's the biblical worldview? But this first week here, we're talking about all the other

worldviews. We'll get to the world religions coming up next. But yesterday, and today we're

talking more about just this hodgepodge of coping mechanisms and ideologies of modern America today.

Some people, when it comes to suffering, they ignore it all. They try to remake the world

without suffering, even if it means ignoring suffering.

And then some people anticipate it all the time and just live in it.

They live the cynical life of suffering nonstop.

And that is not the biblical worldview.

Two more worldviews.

Actually, real quick, before I get to those, I should say that this week is not super helpful

if you're in the midst of suffering

right now. This is more for in a time of peace and calm to prepare for the suffering that is to

come. By the way, the word we talked about yesterday, joy, the Greek word, the exact literal

definition of the Greek word for joy is calm delight.

That nice calm delight.

All right, so there are two other ways that people deal with suffering.

One is self-pity.

Something bad happens, and they decide to feel sorry for themselves and maybe even derive some pleasure by feeling sorry for themselves. Woe is me! Woe is B!

And people always think their problems are the greatest. They're the worst. No one else is

going through anything. At this first one, no one's ever gone through what I'm going through,

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