Today on Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren, we continue in our riveting journey through the series The Invisible War.

In it, we'll explore the unseen world of good and evil and see how it impacts our day-to-day existence.

Join us for eye-opening biblical insights into the spiritual dimensions that influence our lives in ways

we never imagined.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called,

Why is life in this world so hard?

Now we spent about four weeks looking at the battle inside.

Why do I struggle with what's inside me?

Why do I do the things I don't want to do and don't do the things that I want to do?

And why don't I do the stuff that's good for me?

And why is it such a battle inside me?

Now we're going to move to the second phase and I'm very excited about this as we look at how do I live in a broken world.

Now before we can look at God's strategy for you to succeeding, survive, and actually be fulfilled

in a broken world, we need to look at what happened first.

So if you have a message notes, if you'll take them out,

I want us to deal with this question this weekend,

why is it so hard?

Why is life so hard in this world? Everything seems to be a battle. Nothing is easy.

The fact is life is difficult. Would everybody agree with that? It's not easy. Life is difficult. Would everybody agree with that? It's not easy. Life is difficult. It just

doesn't come handed to you on a platter. And so we ask this question, why is life so hard?

Why is there suffering in the world?

Now friends, that's one of the most important questions

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