Hello everybody and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.

This is the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

Now today we're continuing into the New Year,

and we're digging deeper into one of life's biggest questions,

Does My Life Really Matter?

In today's message, Rick's going to continue his powerful series,

Live Your Calling, What on Earth Am I Here For? In it, you'll discover how living out God's

purpose for your life brings real meaning, direction, and joy no matter where you're starting

from. All right, well, let's hear from Rick with the final

part of a message called The Call is for you. Now there's a fourth thing that the Bible teaches

us about your calling, and it is this. This is a big one. My sins and my mistakes don't change my call.

Oh, I'm so glad for this one. My sins and my mistakes don't change my call. Oh, I'm so glad for this one. My sins and my mistakes don't change

my call. God's call for my life. It doesn't matter how messed up your life has been. Whether you

messed it up or somebody messed it up for you. No matter how screwy it got, how difficult it became, no matter how many dumb decisions you've made in the past, it hasn't changed God's call on your life at all.

The call that God gave you before you were born, the call that God gave you when you were saved and reaffirmed

when you're saved is a calling that God says it's there forever. It's a permanent calling.

And God doesn't change it. Now, a good example of this, of course, was Paul. I mean, Paul was a pretty

rude dude in a crude mood

before he became an apostle. God called him to be an apostle. And in 1 Timothy chapter 1, Paul says this,

by calling me into his service.

Jesus has judged me trustworthy, even though I used to be a blasphemer and a persecutor

and contemptuous.

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