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 Sabbath, February seventeen, 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 in our lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
and our caption for today is Wisdom for Righteous Living. That's wisdom for
righteous living. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
like to say welcome to you, and again, great big happy Sabbath to
everyone joining us, especially those who've never been here before. We are delighted
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going to come. When is he going to come? When this gospel of
the Kingdom is preached into all the world for a witness? And so we
do our part in your daily portion. Let's go ahead and pray and then
get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us another day,
especially the Sabbath day. We are grateful. Please teach us to love you
and to serve you. Teach us not to give up our hope. Teach
us that you have given wisdom in these last days for a reason. In
Jesus' name, I pray Amen and amen again wisdom for righteous living. May
I just say I have been reading through the Bible chronologically, and when I
say chronologically, there are two ways that you can see that I mean in
the order of the events, not in the order of the writing of the
books. Okay, and so I'm going through, or I went through last
month, the Book of Job, the Book of Job, and Job chapter
thirty one is in particular, it's particularly intriguing to me. If you will
read that, you will see the heart of a righteous person who has searched
himself for anything that is disagreement with God, and is standing on principle to
say, I know that I am connected to God. I don't understand what's
happening in my life, but I know that I have nothing between my soul
and my Savior. What an interesting story. I won't get off into that,
because that's not the nature of our discussion this sabbath. But I just
want you to go with me now to the Book of Psalms, the Book
of Psalms, chapter ninety, and we will read verse twelve. The Book
of Psalms, chapter ninety, and will read verse twelve. Job was a
stellar experience, a stellar example of someone who was full of God's wisdom.
Okay, and so the Bible reads, so teach us to number our days,
why that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Let me read it
again, So teach us to number our days. My question here is why.
And then the Bible writer answers it that we may gain a heart of
wisdom. Well, what does that mean the text actually means? Or that
gain a heart of wisdom actually means get a heart of wisdom, get a
heart of wisdom. Do you have a heart of wisdom? Remember the Bible
says if anybody lacks wisdom, we need to ask of God, and He
will give to everyone who does so liberally and will not hold back anything.
Right, So, if we are after God's wisdom, we are after the
heart of God. God wants to give us a heart of wisdom. We
are after the heart of God. Well what does that mean? That sounds
real poetic, Dave. Well, truly, if you study the Book of
Proverbs chapter eight, especially the closing verses, several closing verses, and then
First Corinthians Chapter one, Versus thirty and thirty one, you will see that
Jesus Christ himself is wisdom. And so, as the Bible writer penned in
the Book of Proverbs chapter two, if we search for wisdom as for silver,
and seek for it as for hidden treasure, then we will have the
knowledge of God. And so forth, we will receive Jesus Christ into our
lives. Now, there are many examples of people in the scriptures, because
I wanted to see in living color what it looked like for people in scriptures
to be wise. Here are some examples, and I went through the whole
Bible, but just ten examples. Here is the woman of Proverbs chapter thirty
one. This woman is an arch type of wisdom, showing skill in management,
care of her household, entrepreneurship, and strength of character. And that's
from the Book of Psalms chapter thirty one, especially verses ten through thirty one.
Okay, what about Abigail. Abigail if you read the story in First
Samuel, chapter twenty five, there are multiple verses, but I'll just say
read the entire chapter. You'll see that Abigail displayed remarkable wisdom when dealing with
her husband. That dude was evil. Let me just say, charlish is
what the Bible called her husband. But when dealing with David presenting preventing excuse
me, bloodshed by her understanding and timely intervention. It wasn't just that Abigail
was brilliant, because she was, but she also knew how to apply the
wisdom that God had placed in her life and mind, and she prevented a
lot of death. There were a lot of people that could have been hurt
as a result of her husband's ridiculous behavior. Deborah a prophetess and judge of
Israel, known for her wisdom and leading Israel, providing guidance, and her
role in victory over the Canaanite forces in the Book of Judges chapters four and
five, and then the ones like Solomon. You know Solomon the King.
He was famous for wisdom granted by God. He is best known for his
judicious ruling and the wealth of wise sayings in the Book of Proverbs. These
are attributed to him. Then, of course you know Joseph. You know
Joseph who was given unusual wisdom concerning how he should deal with being a captive
by the Ishmaelites, and then moved over to Potiphar. He became a big
man, if you want to say, in Potiphar's household, but of course
he ran into some challenges with Potaphar's wife, and then coming out of that
household, he's in jail. And even in jail he becomes like the prisoner,
if you want to say, and wisdom of God is given to him.
And at the point appointed by God, somehow, some way, miraculously,
God put into the mind of one of the men that was once locked
up with Joseph and put him into a situation where he could influence a good
pharaoh, may I say, a good pharaoh in Egypt, and then impact
the lives of people around the then known world, because famine was a really
deadly foe at the time, and so God used the wisdom that he placed
into Joseph to save a lot of lives. And then we have Daniel,
we have Moses, Paul, the Apostle, King David, Queen Esther,
just to name a few. And so the outcome of numbering our days,
or the reason I should say for numbering our days, is that we may
gain our heart of wisdom. These ten individuals demonstrate what a heart of wisdom
looks like. And so what do we need to actually do? Number one?
We seek God with all of our hearts and follow what we find when
we seek him, Like when He gives us understanding. He said, if
you seek with you, if you seek me with all your heart, you
will find me when you find him. Brothers and sisters, do what he
says, Meditate on God's word, find joy and delight in his statutes,
Strive to live a blameless life like job lived, be vigilant against temptation,
and then, of course, regularly reflect on the fact that we're here for
just a moment, so invest the time in making a difference in this world.
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,