Hi, we're glad that you're here. This is Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren.

Well, we're bringing this series called Building My Life on Values that Last to a Close.

Today Rick's going to take a final look at how we can apply the biblical principles of trust,

self-control, balance, respect, forgiveness, moral purity, fairness, honesty, and love to our lives.

I can't wait to hear what Rick shares today in the final part of the message called

Showing Fairness.

There's a fourth reason why God allows... message called showing fairness.

There's a fourth reason why God allows injustice

and unfairness in the world, and that is because it can build character. It can build character. Now character is never built when things are easy.

Character is built in the tough times of life. The Bible says suffering produces character. Now when I had

you write down the phrase it can build character would you circle the word can because

I'm not saying that it does build character,

I'm saying that it can build character.

Suffering does not automatically produce character.

It only produces character when you choose to respond to it in the right way.

I know a lot of people who've suffered a tremendous amount and they have no character all.

They're bitter, cynical, dried up, shriveled, heart, human beings.

Why?

Because instead of becoming better through the suffering,

they've become bitter through the suffering.

So all suffering does not automatically build character. It

only builds character if you choose to respond to it in the right way. As an example of somebody

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