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Forgive Others Because You Need Forgiveness
By Rick Warren “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ

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By Rick Warren

“The LORD is kind to everyone who trusts and obeys him.” Lamentations 3:25 (CEV)

We live on a broken planet, with natural disasters, physical decay, and death. There’s emotional distress and disappointment, distance and discord in relationships, and spiritual discontent and darkness. It’s no wonder why there is an epidemic of hopelessness in our world. I would feel hopeless too if I thought this broken place was the end of the story—but it’s not. There’s good news!

How can you be happy in a world full of pain and suffering and sorrow? How can you be happy when you deeply and personally feel the effects of broken bodies, broken relationships, and broken hope?

You do what Jeremiah did. Jeremiah was a prophet who experienced plenty of suffering and disappointment. He wrote the book of Lamentations, where he gives his testimony:

“I cannot find peace or remember happiness. . . . Thinking of my troubles and my lonely wandering makes me miserable.

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