Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good
morning. It is Friday, April twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello,
my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and
today is no exception. We are continuing this preparation day morning in our lesson
study series, the Great Controversy, under the caption our Progress, God's Perfection,
Our progress, God's Perfection. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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So many to say, let's go ahead and pray and then we'll get
underwagh. Father, thank you for this day of preparation. Help us to
prepare our hearts and to live in the light of your perfection. In Jesus'
name, I pray Amen and a men again. Yes, So there are
certain people with my behavior style aham, who are looking for perfection all the
time, always looking for perfection, like because we like things tidy, well
organized and nice, right, and sometimes to be frank in our religious or
i should say spiritual lives, our connection with God lives, things get a
little messy and I'm not trying to minimize it as if it's not a big
deal, like when we make mistakes and if God forbid we sin. It's
not that God is saying, oh, no big deal. I know that
you're only human in air quotes. But it does mean that we should not
arrest our own progress because we are not seeing God's perfection in our own eyes,
in our own lives. Can I say it just another way, do
not fall off the bike of spiritual connection with God and growth? And then
and then decide, well, it doesn't make sense to continue along the path
because I keep messing up. No, no, no. When we are
in the light of God's word, we are in the light of His salvation.
We live according to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If God forbid we
should fall, let me say it this way. I'm going to read it,
write out of the scriptures in first first John, chapter two the Bible.
The Bible says, my little children, these things write I unto you
that she sin not right. And if anyone sins, you have an advocate
of the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous, who has become the propitiation
for our sins. So he stands in our place, brother and sisters.
So God has empowered us so that we can live from the moment of our
new birth experience until we die or Jesus comes. We can live like Jesus
lived from his natural birth ah until his death. We can live holy lives.
We can. But if along the pathway we make a mistake, we
do a sin, we can go to God and confess those sins, agree
with him about what happened, and then in the power of the Holy Spirit,
be restored, be restored and empowered to do God's will, our progress,
God's perfection. And so let me just read from the book The Great
Controversy, page one hundred three, and then we'll go into the scriptures.
God permitted great light to shine upon the minds of those chosen men. We're
talking about some of these reformers that we made allusion to this week, but
they did not receive all the light that was to be given to the world
through these his servants. God was leading the people out of the darkness of
Romanism, but there were many and great obstacles for them to meet, and
he led them on step by step as they could bear it. They were
not prepared to receive all the light at once. Sometimes you wonder, well,
why is it that God, God didn't shut down the kings having on
so many wives, Why is it that you know the reformers that we revere
in a lot of ways. I respect the reformers, the Husses of this
life, right, I respect I respect the Martin Luthers of this life.
And then of course the walden Scenes and so many others. And you're like,
well, well, they still had misunderstandings, they still didn't keep.
You could say the Sabbath, they could they still didn't believe, and you
could pick some other truths that they didn't yet under stand or believe. And
what God is saying is that our understanding and our connection with God is progressive.
If we are continuing along the pathway that leads to life, then God's
perfection stands in our stead. May I say it again, this is not
an intellectual journey. This is not an intellectual journey. There are things that
we don't either understand yet or know as yet, and God is not holding
that against us as long as we stay on the path of progress. On
the path of progress, I wish I had the time to deal with people
in the scriptures like Rayhab who had a former life of whoredom. And she
told, uh, well, Alie really like, she was like, yeah,
they're not here. I don't know what y'all talk about. They're not
here. And she hid them. If you want to say, I'm saying
that tongue in cheek, right, she hid the people of God and she
was rewarded. She was rewarded for doing so. And you're like, but
that doesn't seem right. Well, who says it's not right? When God
is the one who understands our progress. God is the one who understands what
our real standing with him is, how far he has led us, and
how far he is still going to lead us our progress. God's perfection.
Okay, let me continue, Let me continue. Therefore, he revealed it
to the leaders, little by little as it could be received by the people
from century to century. Other faithful workers were to follow, to lead the
people on still further in the path of reform. You see. So God
did not give the every person in the Reformation every little detail. And I
don't mean little in terms of magnitude, but little in terms of how many
of them there are. There's so many, so many in this huge,
grand scheme of things. He didn't give them every single detail at the right,
at the exact moment that they received certain other elements of light. He
has been leading his people, step by step by step into a complete and
right relationship with God. I think that is a wonderful thing that will lead
us now to a few a few points that can be of help to us.
Number one, embrace progressive revelation. Progress progressive revelation. Here in the
Book of Proverbs, chapter four and verse eighteen, the Bible reads, but
the path of the just is as the shining light. Okay, okay,
wise man, what does that mean? That shineth more and more unto the
perfect day? So God is leading us step by step more light, a
little bit more light, more light until the perfect day. Of course,
we should prioritize spiritual wealth over material wealth. In fact, the Bible says
that we're not to lay up our treasures on earth, but accumulate for ourselves
treasures in heaven. That has to do with priority, has nothing to do
with how much or how little we have on planet Earth. In fact,
God wants us to be the lender and not the borrower, the head and
not the tail. Right, but He wants us not to prioritize our earthly
things, but rather prioritize the treasures that we build in heaven. Yes.
Well, there's so much else we could say, but again, our progress,
God's perfection. Trust him along the journey. Peace. Thanks for joining
us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
daily portion with el David Harris, Make it a great day. Yeah,