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 Thursday, February one, twenty twenty four. Can you believe
it. 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 less Less
the Righteous be tempted, Bless the Righteous be tempted. We'll get into that
in just a moment. The first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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is how we build faith and fellowship. All right, Let's go ahead and
pray, and then we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you
for giving us your spirit, your presence. Please give us your understanding,
teach us how to serve you, and help us not to be yielding to
temptation to go another route, to leave you. Because things are difficult and
the wicked seem to be prospering. I just pray that you will give us
the discipline to yield our will to you at all times. In Jesus' name,
I pray Amen and Amen again. All right, So the righteous do
get tempted at times, but we have the privilege of what resisting temptation.
When I was young, I remember there was a hymn that they used to
play in church, yield not to temptation, for yielding his sin, and
then and then not the Bible, But then the hymn writer would take us
through this journey about connecting ourselves to God and pressing forward regardless of how the
devil entreats us and how our inner thoughts and feelings seem to betray us.
And the things of the world that seem to drag on our desire to do
something different. We are not to yield to temptation. Why because yielding is
sin. So temptation is not the problem, it's what happens next. Do
you realize that God has promised that even if you are tempted when you are
in pain, you are tempted when you have not enough money more than the
month that is available to you. Hah, there are difficulties that you experience
in relationships. He said, There hath no temptation taken you, but such
as is common to man. But God is faithful, who will with the
temptation provide a way of escape that ye may be able to bear it.
So again, God has not left his people. God has not left his
people. But the fact is that we are tempted, right And so there
is a quote here I want to find it again. It's from the Reformation
Commentary on the Scriptures, page eleven, and it's a very simple concept,
but it says these things, reading from the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy
three, These things mock those who ignore the first verse of this psalm,
which is a summary of the whole Psalm, How good the God of Israel
is to those who are upright in heart. We see in the Book of
Psalms, chapter seventy three, the lesson writer says that this is focused on
the current iniquity of this world. He is unable to see the big picture
from God's point of view. The problem that the prosperity of evil posed to
his faith is overwhelming. He believed also that his argument about the uselessness of
faith was based on reality. He believed that that faith was useless and that
that was based on reality. Well, it's not based on reality. It
is not useless, you see. And so let's go to the Book of
Psalms. We won't read the whole chapter. There are a lot of verses
there, but we're going to read from the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy
three, a couple of a few verses, and then we'll discuss just a
little bit on it. Okay, Oops, I'm back in Psalms chapter seventy
seven. I think that was from yesterday, Psalms chapter seventy three, And
I will read beginning at verse one. Certainly God is good to Israel and
to those whose motives are pure. So God is giving us a heads up
to just say straight through the pen of the inspired Bible writer that he is
good and that his mercies are everlasting, like no matter what you're going through,
his motives are always pure Verse two. But as for me, my
feet almost slip, Thank God? Can somebody just say thank God for almost
ah almost slipped, My feet almost slid out from under me. For I
envied those who are proud and observed the prosperity of the wicked. Have you
ever seen those some of them millionaires and billion millionaires, multimillionaires and billionaires,
that seem to be prospering above you, and you wonder, well, if
they're not doing what God says? And I'm not saying that all of these
wealth rich or wealth people are not doing God's will, but I'm talking about
the ones that you see our living lifestyles contrary to the will of God.
Have you ever felt like those individuals are prospering and you're not? Verse four.
For they suffer no pain. Their bodies are strong and well fed.
They are immune to trouble common to men. They do not suffer as other
men do. Arrogance is their necklace, and violence covers them like clothing.
Their prosperity causes them to do wrong. Their thoughts are sinful, They mock
and say evil things. They proudly threaten violence. They speak as if they
rule in heaven and lay claim on the earth, and on and on and
on. Verse eleven, they say, how does God know what we do?
Is the most high aware of what goes on? Take a good look.
This is what the wicked are like. Those who always have it so
easy, get richer and richer. I conclude, did surely in vain have
I kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle. Now listen, and
I need you to listen very carefully. You know, God takes a record.
He keeps a record of what we say and our thoughts, what we
do. And in Malachi there is this part where God shows that he draws
a line in the sand and he says, I am keeping a record of
what my people say and the lifestyles of those who don't know me. And
what I'm saying is that while you are struggling with this thought that I'm not
good, that it is not worth serving me, I'm going to demonstrate the
difference between my people and the people who don't love me, and so it
is our privilege to borrow God's breath. It is our privilege to have eternal
life. It is our privilege that when we do go through trials and tribulations,
we do not have to go through them alone. It is our privilege
to see the reality and not the deceptive thought that the enemy has put in
our minds that people, all people do go through trials and tribulations. Ah,
But the difference is the wicked have nowhere to go. Now, the
wicked have an opportunity to yield their will to God. But if you are
a servant of the most High God, Blessed be his name, banish the
thought that God has forgotten you. Banish the thought that He is allowing the
wicked to prosper and that you will falter once you when you have an opportunity
to read in the Book of Deuteronomy, chapter twenty eight, all of the
verses, but especially look at the contrast between verses one through fourteen and the
remaining verses of that chapter. And just know that God does not sleep,
He does not slumber. His promises are sure. He has not forgotten you.
But this earth as it is today is not our final home. He
is transforming our characters so that one day, when Jesus does return, that
he will be able to take us to heaven for a thousand years and then
give us the earth made new after the thousand years are finished. In the
meantime, though he does causes people to prosper, he does causes people to
become the lender and not the borrower, the head and not the tail.
But you have to go into the scriptures and see what it is in his
mind that when he does that, what our responsibilities are. Yeah. Have
a wonderful day, peace, not difficult too. 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,