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 Sunday. It's
February nine, twenty twenty five. 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, God's Love and Justice, and our caption
for today is how long, Oh Lord, how long? It's
a real question, how long? How long? We'll get into
that in just a moment, But first I'd like to
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
we do thank you this day. Thank you today for
or giving us the privilege of prayer. Thank you for
giving us the opportunity to open up your word together. Father,
I pray that as we cry out, how long will
these things on planet Earth that are really just overwhelmingly
terrible at times? How long will they go on? Father,
help us to ask the same question in our own
lives and yield ourselves to you. And then today be
the day that we finally make the decision once and
for all that we will choose you in Jesus' name,
I pray Amen and Amen again. How long, oh Lord,
have you ever asked God this, Whatever your circumstances are,
You've lost a loved one, lost a spouse to death,
the cold hands of some disease. And we have the hashtags,
and we have the other things that say we hate
those things that are taking our love ones away, political
unrest and strife, things going on in the economy that
we we try to explain and make sense of. But
we're tired. And people just generally are not as kind
as in times past, or at least that's how we
perceive it. And it seems that humans are becoming darker
and darker. How long? How long will the wicked prosper?
How long will it be for you to deliver your
people out of their hands? How long, Father, will it
be before Jesus comes? So Really the question that I
need to be asking me while I am crying out
to God? How long? How long? God? I should be saying, like, Lord,
how can I serve you? Father? How long will the
wicked continue? How long will the nation's rage? How long
will the people who are against you be against us?
How long? And I should be asking and answering the question, Lord, today,
can today be the day that I yield finally? Can
today be the day that I no longer flip flop
and change my mind when I commit myself to you?
How long? And so the problem with evil is voiced
not only in contemporary contexts, but also in the scriptures.
And we see in the Book of Job chapter thirty,
Job chapter thirty and verse twenty six. But when I
hoped for good, trouble came. When I expected light, darkness came.
How long Job was in the fight of his life.
He had no idea really the details of what was
going on with him, and he was weary. Jeremiah chapter
twelve and verse one. The Bible reads, Lord, you have
always been fair whenever I have complained to you. However,
I would like to speak to you about the disposition
of justice. Have you had conversations brothers and sisters wherever
you happen to be in the world, and talk to
God about justice? How are really just out of control?
It seems that things are out of control. Have you
gone to God to and said God, what is going
on with righteousness in the land? The Bible continues, Why
are wicked people successful? Why do all dishonest people have
such easy lives? Really? Do they have easy lives? Does
it appear that they have easy lives? Well, Bible says
that the way of the wicked person is hard, even
though at times it does seem like they're living it up,
having the time of their lives. So the prophets they
struggled with the same thing. And so in Jeremiah, chapter
thirteen and verse twenty two, the Bible reads, you will
probably ask yourself, why have these things happened to me?
Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteress whose
skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed? It
is because you have sinned so much. There are times,
there are times that we go through trials because we
turn away from God. Not every time. Job wasn't experiencing
that because he turned away from God. But there are
times that we are being chastised. There are times when
it's as a result, maybe not of our own particular sin,
but because of the sinfulness of those around us, and
the society suffers because people around us are not yielding
to God, they're not repenting of their sin, and they
are imposing their wickedness upon the society. But I promise you,
not me, But I'm reading from God's word and promising
based on what he has said, that wickedness will not
continue forever. Wickedness will soon be completely rooted out, and
every branch of it will be destroyed. God will finally
destroy death, he will destroy sin, he will destroy all wickedness,
and one day it'll all be over. But until then,
until then, we yield. We ask God to teach us
to surrender. And in Malachi, chapter two and verse seventeen,
the Bible reads, ye have wearied the Lord with your words.
But you say, how have we wearied him? Because you say,
everyone who does evil is good in the Lord's opinion,
and he delights in them. Or where is God, God
of justice? And sometimes humans give God a bad wrap.
We blame God for things that we have decided. We
blame God for how the enemy of souls has tricked people,
and then they accept that trickery into their lives, and
we put it on on God. And really and truly
the God of justice, he is going to come forward
one day. The Bible says that Michael, Michael Jesus Christ,
the Prince, he is going to stand up one day
He's going to stand up one day in a special
way and in a unique way that we've never seen
him before. The Bible says that in Daniel chapter eleven,
there were all kinds of kings, really, from Daniel chapter
one straight through to eleven, all kinds of kings and
alliances that stand up, and then they have to sit down.
Every kind of king and kingdom and alliance stand up
and sit down. Their repression. It stands up and it
sits down. Their machinery, it stands up and it sits down.
And then one day Jesus Christ, the Bible says, will
stand up, yup. He will stand up and fully stand
up for us people. And then the only time we
will see him sit down after that, Jesus Christ himself
when is when he sits down on the throne of
the universe as King of kings and Lord of lords.
He will sit down firmly on the seat of the
universe's government. And no other human or wicked pursuit will
ever take him off the throne. But in the meantime,
in the meantime, sometimes we cry with the Psalmist in
Psalm chapter ten and verse one, why Lord do you
stand afar off. Why do you pay no attention during
times of trouble? And so the truth is that he's
not standing afar off, that he does come through for
his people. We have time after time where God has
come through for his people. But in the meantime, when
we do experience troubles, we do experience trials. We can
ask God how long, but He's going to answer us
at the appropriate time. He is going to extinguish all
sin and we're looking forward to that day. Make it
a great day.
Speaker 1: 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,