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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much, because yesterday's

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food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do

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some of us expect yesterday's portion of
heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On
this program, we are going to change

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all of that. Let's experience God's
words today and receive the power we need

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to live healthy, vibrant lives.
Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Good morning, Good morning, Good

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morning. It is Monday, March
twenty five, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is Elle David Harris.
I am your host, and this

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is your Daily Portion where we give
you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are
continuing in our lesson study series for this

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final week through the Book of Psalms, and our caption for today is piece

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of a Weaned Child, Piece of
a Weaned Child. We'll get it to

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that in just a moment, but
first I'd like to say welcome to you

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a way that we continue to build
faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and

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pray, and then we will get
underway. Father and Heaven, thank you

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for giving us the opportunity to be
called by your name and to continue into

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this work week. Father, Please
give us understanding, teach us how to

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connect with you, because you have
welcomed us into your presence. In Jesus'

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name, I pray, Amen and
a man again. So the lesson writer

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interestingly says this, God's people live
in a world that afflicts the faithful,

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a world full of temptations and hardship
for almost everyone. A refreshed conviction that

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he is a child of God and
dependent on God for his life consoles the

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Psalmist and brings him to confess that
his pride has no value. The deceitfulness

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of pride is that it causes the
proud to become self centered and unable to

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look beyond themselves. The proud are
thus blinded to the higher reality of God.

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Now this is very interesting to me, because really and truly, if

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I'm dependent upon my mother for sustenance, I'm a baby. Can't even hold

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up my head. I am dependent
upon her breast milk for sustenance if you

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superimpose that on my life as an
adult. And I am dependent upon God

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for my daily bread, for my
daily spiritual bread, for everything that is

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my life, my breath, my
strength, my intelligence, my intellect,

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my emotional stability, and on and
on. We can go at infinitum forever.

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And I become proud and say,
God, I don't like how you're

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doing my life. I don't like
what it is that you say that my

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life should look like. I'm not
in agreement with you. How proud is

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that? And so the lesson writer
aptly has us to look at Psalm chapter

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one hundred thirty one, and I
will read beginning at verse one, and

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the Bible reads, oh Lord,
my heart is not proud, thank God,

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Nor do I have a haughty look. I do not have great aspirations

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or concern myself with things that are
beyond me. One thing that we say

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in Jamaica is sometimes people fast in
other people's business, or in big people's

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business. And basically what this is
saying is that some people are into what

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others are doing, rather than worrying
about what I'm supposed to be doing.

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Have you ever heard that is above
my pay grade? Yeah, there are

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people who even at work at your
workplace, organization, company, or whatever,

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sometimes the management has already made a
decision about a thing, and it's

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not an ethics problem, it's not
a moral problem. It's just a way

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that they have chosen to operate,
and then some people have such big problems

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with it that it becomes a point
of gossip and contention. Well, the

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Bible writer is saying that I'm not
going to be like that toward God.

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When God makes a judgment in heaven, I am going to agree with him.

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No matter what trials or tribulations I
go through. No matter what God

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brings my way or allows me to
go through, I am going to trust

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him. I am not proud.
I don't have a proud look, and

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my aspirations are only really what God
wants for me to do. I'm not

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going to add anything to it.
Whatever the calling is that God is placed

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on my life, that is what
I am going to explore. And the

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Bible continues verse two. Indeed,
I have calmed and quieted myself like a

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weaned child with its mother. I
am content like a young child. Oh,

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Israel, hope in the Lord now
and forever more. You see,

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the Bible writer is welcoming other people
into a right relationship with God, the

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kind of relationship where confession is a
standard. And when I say confession,

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I don't mean just saying out loud
what I have done wrong. That's not

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what I'm saying. I'm talking about
agreement with God. Holiness and confession are

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agreement with God. Whatever God's judgment, his what he says is about my

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life, then I agree with that. This is what we're talking about.

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And so I have calmed and quieted
myself like a weaned child with its mother.

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Have you ever been in a situation
where you were not quiet, where

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you are not peaceful, You didn't
like how things were going on the job.

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It was a relationship breach with someone
that you really loved, maybe even

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were romantically involved in or with excuse
me, or maybe your health condition has

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gone in a way that nobody planned
and it's not something that makes God happy

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because you're in pain or somehow going
through a struggle that it's way too difficult

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for you in your mind to bear. And God is saying, just like

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I took care of job in his
deepest trials, just like I took care

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of Jesus as he was in the
garden of Gethsemane, sweating as it were

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great drops of blood, just like
I took care of Christ while he was

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on the cross, crying out,
My God, My God, why have

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thou forsaken me? I am able
to take care of you. The Bible

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writer is saying, Oh, Israel, I want you to hope in God

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in this same way that I am
learning, and do it forever more.

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What I want to do now is
see what we can draw from Psalm chapter

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one hundred and thirty one, besides
what I have rambled on about some specific

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lessons and some other points in scripture. Okay, and so in verse one

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we see humility before God. My
heart is not proud, so we see

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humility. We have to humble ourselves. We have to learn, by God's

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grace, the importance of humility and
recognizing our limitations before the infinite knowledge and

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wisdom of God. We don't know
enough to argue with God. We don't

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know enough to be disconcerted by what
he does or does not do. What

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we need to know is that He's
a good God. How good is He

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He's so good that no matter what
we go through, no matter what we're

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confused about, he can take us
through the trials. He does not always

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deliver us, but he does deliver
us through. He doesn't always deliver us

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from, but he delivers us through. We don't always understand, but he

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said, don't lean to your own
understanding in all of your ways. Brothers

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and sisters, acknowledge Him, and
he will direct your path. So we

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learn humility from verse one before God. From verse two we learn contentment and

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trust. Remember it says I have
learned to be calm and quieted myself.

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This is a deliberate and active choice
contentment in whatever station I find myself,

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whether I abound or I am abased, I find contentment. Whether I have

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food or food and raiment, right, clothing and shelter, I am content.

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This imagery reflects a deep sense of
contentment and trust in God, trust

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in the wisdom and knowledge of God. Trust in God as much as a

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child trusts in the care of its
mother. And then the insignificance of pride.

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It doesn't make sense to be proud, brothers and sisters, because no

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matter what decisions we make, when
we're proud. They have to be undone.

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We cannot trust in our own understanding. We can't trust in our own

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wisdom because if we do, this
means that we are selfish, yes,

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and our understanding of conplex matters.
They go beyond our grasp and we pay

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the penalty. So there's so many
lessons to learn. But let's be peaceful

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like a child is peaceful and content
in his or her mother's grass. A

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wonderful day. Thanks for joining us
listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by
every word that comes from the mouth of

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God. This has been your daily
portion with El David Harris. Make it

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a great day. Yeah,