Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, January thirty,
twenty twenty five. 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, God's Love and Justice, and our caption for
today is show compassion. I said show compassion. I didn't
say think compassionately. I didn't say internally advocate compassion. I
said show compassion. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray, rather we do thank you for this
day and for the fact that you are so compassionate
toward us. Please teach us to be compassionate toward others
and even toward ourselves. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again. You know, sometimes we judge ourselves, we're
judgmental to ourselves, and we speak to ourselves internally in
a way that that really if we were to say
it to somebody else, it would be like abuse. We
would consider it, consider it to be abusive. And so
if we're going to be compassionate, one of the first
people that we need to be compassionate toward is ourselves.
I wish I had the time really to deal with that.
But the lesson study begins this way. While divine wrath
is a quote terrible thing, it is by no means
immoral or unloving. On the contrary, in the Old and
New Testaments, God expresses wrath against evil because of his love.
Did you get that God expresses wrath toward evil because
of his love? There are times that you see people
being abused and you want to jump in and be
of service somehow and help and deliver the people who
are being abused. And the law has to come into
play here, and it has to be and that is
a function of your love. Right, Divine wrath is terrible
because of the insidious nature of evil in contrast to
the pure goodness and splendor of God. Okay, one more
thing in this regard. Love is essential to God. Wrath
is not. Where there is no evil or injustice, there
is no wrath. Did you get that where there is
no evil or injustice that we don't need the wrath
of God, and he does not show that right in
the end, God's most loving action of eradication of evil
from the universe also effectively will eliminate anger and wrath.
I said a lot, thank you for the lesson.
Speaker 1: Writer.
Speaker 2: Let's look for compassion now for others for a little
while here and in the Bible Book of Tewod Corinthians,
chapter one, beginning at verse three, the Bible reads, Blessed
be God, even our Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
the father of mercies. You see, God is the father
of mercies, the God of all comfort, who comforteth us
in all tribulation, that we may be able to comfort
them that are in trouble by the comfort wherewith we
ourselves are comforted by God God. And so therefore God
comforts us and we can comfort others. There's no wrath there.
There's no wrath there. And then we go to feeding
the hungry and Matthew chapter twenty five and verse twenty
in verse thirty five, for I was and hungered, and
ye gave me meat. I was thirsty, and you gave
me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in.
And so God is saying that there are people who
are what he considers to be the least of these
his brethren. The way that we live toward them, the
way that we act toward them, we are indeed acting
toward God. So if we are feeding the hungry, clothing
the naked, if we are unfortunately or please I hope
this does not happen where you're concerned. If it's the opposite,
we're discompassionate or abusive toward the same people, then this
is the way that God is seeing how we are
to wards others. And of course there is forgiveness and
Colossians chapter three and verse thirteen, forbearing one another and
forgiving one another. If any man have quarrel against any
even as Christ forgave you, also do ye. And then
the sick and imprisoned in Matthew chapter twenty five again,
but this time verse thirty six, you were naked, naked
and ye clothed me. I was sick, and Ye visited me.
I was in prison, and Ye came unto me. And
so God through Christ is identifying with the lame, the main,
the blind, the broken, the people who are at a
quote disadvantage. He is seeing himself as them, so that
we must see him as them and treat them like
we would treat God. And then verse twenty seven of
James Chapter one, the Bible reads pure religion. I know
people are saying, well, I'm not a part of a religion,
I'm a part of whatever the idealistic term is that
they use. What the Bible says that there is a
pure religion. So don't be afraid of the term religion.
What kind of religion? Pure religion and undefiled before God?
And the Father is to visit the fatherless and widows
in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
I could go on and on and on and even
about healing the broken hearted and binding up their wounds
as in Psalm chapter one, forty seven and verse three.
So we show compassion toward others because God, for Christ's sake,
has shown compassion for us. Now, like I said, there
is there is this vengeance of God and so forth
that comes against evil. But God is not welcoming us
into the idea that we should be vengeful. That is
not for us. We are to show compassion, and vengeance
belongs to God. Now, the Bible reads and Deuteronomy chapter
thirty two and verse thirty five, to me belonge vengeance
and recompense. Their foot shall slide in due time, for
the day of their calamity is at hand, and the
things that shall come upon them make haste. So the
Bible teaches us that it is God who brings retribution,
God who brings vengeance. And we've already said that when
God reluctantly needs to do it, it's because he has
to deliver the world from evil full stop. And in
Proverbs chapter twenty and verse twenty two, the Bible reads it.
The Bible reads, say thou not, I will recompense evil,
but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.
In chapter twenty four and verse twenty nine of the
Book of Proverbs, the Bible, the Bible also reads, say not,
I will do so to him as he hath done
to me. I will render to the man according to
his work. And we see in many other places in
scripture where God, because he is one hundred percent righteous
one hundred percent of the time, is responsible for this recompense.
So reprisals wherever you are in the world, that is
not for you recompense in that case, not for you,
not for me. But God said vengeance belongs to him,
and reluctantly he does it. We are to show compassion.
Thank it a great day. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,