Hey everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry that's here to encourage and inspire you every day.

And today we're bringing our series called Awesome Relationships to a close.

In this series, Rick Warren shares practical ways to help you take your relationships with family, friends,

coworkers, and even God from ordinary to extraordinary. This is a series you won't want to miss.

And now let's get to Pastor Rick with the final part of a message called Six Keys to Peace

in Relationships.

Number three, if I want to be wise, I won't minimize your feelings.

I don't compromise my integrity.

I don't antagonize your anger, push your hot buttons, and I don't minimize your feelings.

Wisdom acknowledges your feelings and doesn't diminish them.

You see, the typical reaction, when we don't feel what other people feel, we do two things.

Number one, we belittle them.

If you had a brain, you would know that's just not true.

And you wouldn't feel that way.

We belittle. That doesn't help.

And the other thing, this is worse, is we play psychologist. Now, the reason you feel this way is because

your father, oh. Okay. All right. You are not a psychologist and you are condescending when you try to tell people why they feel the way they feel.

You don't even know why you feel the way you feel.

You can't figure out your own motives half the time.

Why would you think you could figure out somebody else's?

The moment you start judging somebody else's motives, you're playing God and you're wrong.

That's a battle you're going to lose. Don't play psychologist. Prior to 15.4 says this in the

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