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 Tuesday, November four,
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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
for today is Fate Full Choices. Fate full meaning fate
full choices. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
and pray. Father, We thank you for this day. Help
us to make the right decisions all day long. In
Jesus name, I pray Amen and Amen again fate full choices.
I'm going to read from Joshua chapter nine, I mean seven.
Please excuse me Joshua chapter seven, and I'll read beginning
of verse nineteen and the Bible. Reason. Now, Joshua said
to Aiken, my son, I beg you give God the glory,
the Lord God of Israel, and make confession to him,
and tell me now what you have done. Do not
hide it from me. And Aiken answered Joshua and said, indeed,
I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel. And
this is what I have done. When I saw among
the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment two hundred shekels of
silver and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I
coveted them and took them, and there they are hidden
in the earth in the midst of my tent, with
the silver under it. Listen, if Aiken had done this
in the beginning, before all of that inquiry, everything I
described yesterday, he would have been in a perfect position,
perfect position with God. God said, if you confess your sins,
he is faithful and just to forgive and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness. He said that the person who
who hides our sins will not prosper. But who's so
confesseth and forsaketh, those are the individuals who are going
to have life. But now Achin is coming in and
it sounds noble, like if we read this in a vacuum,
we would say, wow, praise the Lord, like this is
the way it should be. But alas like we're in
a position now where we're seeing it was basically forced
from him in the sense of now he don't have
no choice because he can tell like the inquisitor is
right in front of me. I don't know if that's
the right word. Maybe I should have looked it up
before I used it. But everything is sitting right in
front of me, all of the evidence is stacked, and
clearly there's a reason why the man of God is
standing in front of me. Okay, And so we need
to learn a few lessons today from this. And the
first one comes in from again first Job, chapter one
and verse nine. I'll read it from another translation. If
we confess our sins, he God is faithful and righteous
forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.
So Joshua's request for Aikin to give God the glory
reminds us that confession itself honors God. Because remember, confession
is to say what God has said. That means to
agree with God. That's what true confession is. When we
hide sin, we deny his truth. We're trying to make
it seem as if God is lying. When we confess it,
we affirm God's righteousness. Achin was invited to glorify God,
not by just words of praise as usual, but by
telling the truth. Are you giving glory to God by
telling the truth? And I don't mean when it's pressed
upon you, I mean just on an every day like,
are you willing to tell the truth? Confession is about restoration,
a declaration that God is right, we are wrong. And
this is where Aiken made the mistake. He didn't do
it at the stage where he was willing to be transformed.
Now he's pressured. But anyway, regardless of how he did it,
confess quickly. That's the action step for all of us.
Quickly and honestly. Every hidden sin delays healing. But confession
to God, I'm saying, gives glory to him who has
the ability and power to restore us. Let's go in
now to the obvious one in Exodus, chapter twenty and
verse seventeen, where the Bible says, thou shalt not covet
thy neighbor's house. And of course I'm leaving the rest out,
nor anything that is thy neighbors, don't covet. It's simple.
What God gives us is for us. If we have
a desire for something, if we clear it with God
and God makes a way for us to have it,
then praise God. We give God the glory. But if not,
don't cove it, don't covet. Achin Sin began with seeing okay, okay, okay,
we can see then desiring, Okay, we can desire. But
then he started to take hm, No, we can't see
desire and then steal. That's what Eve did. God told
Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of
the tree in the garden, in the midst of the garden,
from the day that thou eatest thereof God said, you
shall surely die. Well, Eve and then Adam after her,
they did the same thing. They saw they desired, and
they took what God had forbidden. God forbade Achin or
everybody else in the community to go the path that
Achin had taken. Convirighteousness is the root of unbelief, whispering
that God is withholding something good from us. Remember what
the serpent, who really was the devil, said to Eve.
When we crave what God has not given, we declare
that his provision is not enough. Coveteousness poisons gratitude, replacing
contentment with suspicion toward God's goodness. Yeah, we have to
let that settle in. If we were only on YouTube
or Facebook, then I would have paused for even longer.
But the people on the radio, we can't let them
stay there like that in silence. But the fact is
that we have the privilege to replace covichous thoughts with
thanksgiving every time we're willing to see then desire and
then go over to the next thing like King David
did and take Bathsheba, take Achin took the the spoils,
and of course Adam and Eve took the fruit. Yeah,
whenever we're having the feeling or the sense or the
desire to go down that path, then we can choose thanksgiving.
Gratitude closes the door that greed tries to pry open.
Let me say it one more time. Gratitude closes the
door that greed tries to pride open, pry open. Yeah,
God is giving us the privilege to say thank you
for what He has given to us and trust him
for whatever else we need. And so really, in Patriarchs
and Profits, page four hundred and ninety six, we read
that the deadly sin that led to Aiken's ruin had
its root in covetousness. All of all sins, one of
the most common and one of the most lightly regarded
is this. This is why on social media when people
are posting all of their stuff, it's like it's almost
like Hezekiah, what have they seen in your house? And
he's showing all of the stuff and not giving God glory.
Showing all of the stuff and not giving God glory.
Social media is often about showing all of the stuff
and not giving God the glory. And so here are
a few reflection questions as we come to a swift close.
Why does confession glorify God more than hiding sin? How
does coveteousness distort our view of God's character? And I'll
just pause right there, and you work on that and
share in our community your answers. Make it a great day, peace.
Speaker 1: 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,