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 Tuesday, January sixteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
is Elle 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 in our lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
and our caption is God is the Judge. God is the Judge. We'll
get into that in just a moment. I like to say welcome to you
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Father and Heaven, thank you for getting us thus far into our work
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for a while. Please, God give us understanding and help us to appreciate
your holiness today in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
God is the judge. Now, let me just shout to you, this
is great news. Okay, maybe I didn't shout it, but you could
kind of hear my intent here right like, this is great news because I
have a question for you. Have you ever been misjudged? Have you ever
been missed? Miss judged? And I actually underlined that part when I wrote
it in my notes, and I said that God sees all I've been in
work situations, relationship situations, all kinds of other challenges when people think they
know but they don't know, and then they make a determination made on bad
inform, made based upon bad information, That is miss judging. Okay,
okay, we'll get into that first. Now, let's go ahead and begin
to take think about seven steps here if we have enough time. Okay.
So we're using the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy five as the backdrop,
not about misjudging, but about the beauty of God being judge right. He
is the one that sees all, He knows all, and justice, judgment,
and righteousness. In the Bible, when it's referencing God, it's all
about holiness, okay, or righteousness. So the first thing is in verse
two, when I shall see the congregation, I will judge up rightly.
So there's a redundancy here because we're talking about God judging. Of course,
God only has one way of judging, and that is uprightly. So what
we do, though, is acknowledge God's timing and sovereignty, his timing and
sovereignty. Recognize that God's judgments are fair and they are made at his perfect
time. I wish I could really get into some of my experiences, but
I think it could get a little weird depending on who's listening or watching.
Right. But there are times that you just wonder, why are people behaving
a certain way, Why are they quote judging me in this way? Why
is it that they are doing X based on what they heard, based on
what they perceived because of somebody else's actions and then aligning or assigning their actions
with you just because you're close to that other person. You see what I'm
saying, Like it's almost like guilt by association. What I tell to people
when they're going through these kinds of things is that God sees. God sees
and he knows all. Here's a case in point. Remember Hagar, Yes,
Hagar and Sarah having a problem because you know, Sarah got the bright
idea that in order for God to keep his promise to Abraham and Sarah to
have a son or a seed who would be the father of many nations.
Right if you want to say, she said, well, let's see,
my husband and I are old. Our reproductive situations are not functional. So
one of the ways that we think that we can actually answer God's answered God's
call, like where God can keep his promise is if Abraham you go into
Hagar, you two have a baby, and then everything else problem solved and
God didn't ask for any help, like he said, what was going to
happen? And there was a bad relationship, and actually even into twenty twenty
four, there are relationships that are strained and even very dangerous or bad and
broken relationships because of Abraham's listening to Sarah and trying to do what God only
could do. But you know what, God sent a messenger to Hagar,
and he said it in a way that she would understand, like he visited
her to let her know that I'm gonna bless your seed, and I see
you, I see you. I'm judging justly at the right time. Now
go submit to yourself to Sarah. But I see you and I see your
seed. So again God's judgments are fair and are made in his perfect timing.
I wish I had the time. Here is another one from verse six.
From promotion cometh neither for promotion cometh neither from the east, nor the
west, nor the south. Now we have to understand that true success and
elevation come from God, not from human arrogance, not from human actions.
Refuse to boast in wickedness. Remember it doesn't come from people, and it
doesn't come from people's evil activities like scammers and people who feel like that they
are smarter than other people, people who are shrewd and calculating, and how
they do business, how they relate to others. It doesn't come from there
it comes from God. Here is another one from verse seven. But God
is the judge. He puteth down one and set it up, setteth up
another one. So we need to trust God in his ultimate justice, because
again the text says clearly God is the judge. Have faith in God and
that he will ultimately bring about justice, elevating the humble. Have you taken
the low road? Brothers and sisters, have you ever humbled yourself and said,
you know what, I know that these people have the wrong idea.
I know that I'm not getting my just deserts my reward as I should get,
not because I deserve it, but because I have earned it. There
are times that you have have not gotten the pay that you deserve. There
are times that you have not gotten the recognition for your service that you deserve,
and it was assigned or stolen to some assigned to or stolen by someone
else, And then they and their families and their legacy may have benefited you.
See. Uh, yeah, I won't go too far down into that
road, but just understand that God is just and we can trust ultimately in
his justice. Examine your own heart and your actions. From verse nine,
I will declare forever, I will sing praises unto the God of Jacob.
Regularly reflect on your actions and heart's intentions, seeking to align them with God's
will, and praising him for his guidance and righteousness. Things don't always work
out the same way. There are times that you have to praise Him in
the difficult times. There are times that you praise him in triumph. There
are times that you praise him in the times that you just really don't understand.
But you have read that God inhabited the praises of his people, and
so you praise Him for his mighty acts and according to his excellent greatness.
And you know that in reality, if you praise God, you are coming
into his prayers. So if you examine your heart, if I examine my
heart and say, God, am I praising you because things are perfect?
Am I praising you because I desire something from you? Or am I praising
you because You're worthy? You see, also celebrate God's righteous judgment. In
verse three, the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved. I bear
up the pillars of it Sillah. Rejoice in God's just governance of the world,
knowing that his judgments are always right and ultimately bring stability into the chaos
of life. There's so much more that we could say, but I'm so
thankful that God is the judge and we are not. What a wonderful day,
Peace, Thanks for joining us listening to 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,