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, January
twenty six, 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 under the caption
Grieved by Evil, Grieved by Evil. We'll get into that
in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
thank you for giving us this day and for the
new work week, the opportunity that we have to connect
with You and with each other and to do meaningful
things throughout the week. Right now, Father, please help us
to embrace your mindset to hear, to hear how you
think and how you feel about sin, and help us
Lord to think and feel the same way you do.
In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I
don't know if you recall there is a passage in
scripture that says that we should not grieve the Holy
Spirit of God. You know what is grief to God
where evil is concerned. When we hear from Him, when
we know to do right, we know to live right.
We know that God is drawing us into his presence,
into a relationship with him, and we resist him, or
when we are in a relationship with him, and then
the devil tempts us and decides that he wants us
back on his side. And then, in you know, the
passage of events throughout the day, we make decisions that
put us back on the side of the enemy. You
understand when he dangles the proverbial carrot before us and
says that you know you want X, even though it
is not what God said, you want it, don't you?
You deserve it, don't you? And then God forbid some
of us yield our will to that again, and it's like,
how do we get here? And the Holy Spirit is grieved, God,
our Father grieved, Jesus grieved. Why because we don't have
to go down that path. God has made provision for
us to overcome literally every besetting sin, everything that separates
us from God. He has made provision for us to overcome. Okay,
And so we go into the Bible Book of sat
chapter seventy eight, and there's so much to see there.
It took me some time to cherry pick some principles
that we could look at and focus okay, And so
we're gonna start with verse forty, chapter seventy eight, Verse forty,
and we're seeing the recurrent mercy of God. Over and
over again. God has given mercy to his people. And
here is one example. How oft did they provoke him,
meaning God, in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert?
Now I read it in another translation. How often they
rebelled against him in the wilderness and insulted him in
the desert? How many times did God's people as he
delivered them from captivity? They were already delivered physically from captivity,
but spiritually their mindsets were still bound. Why did you
bring us out here in the desert to kill us?
Why did you take away from us the food that
we had while we were in Egypt? Mark you. The
food in Egypt was destructive to their health and their
connection with God. And God was giving them food from heaven,
Manna from heaven, bread from heaven. I think there's a
song that says, feed me till I want no more.
Fill my cup God. Yeah, And they murmured against God.
We don't have water. Murmured, God, we don't have this, murmured,
We don't know where Moses is make us a golden calf.
Aaron murmured so many different things that the people of
God would manufacture against him, and the Bible says that
it was rebellion, it was insulting, It grieved God because
God had been repeatedly showing them mercy, repeatedly showing his patience.
Repeatedly he delivered them from everything that they needed to
be delivered from, and they still murmured. And so we
see the character of God. And of course we'll look
at his patients again in verse forty one, and time
and time again they turned back and tempted God and
pained the Holy One of Israel. Let me say it
another way. Again and again they tested God and provoked
the Holy One of Israel. God's patience is demonstrated as
he endures his people's continuous testing and provocation. Now we
read in verse forty two they remembered not his hand.
You see, I remember an inspiration. It says that we
have no fear for the future except we forget how
God has brought us in the past. There have been
so many times that He has delivered you. I know
some of you wake up and something goes wrong or
what you consider to be wrong in your day, and
you say, what now, how many things do I have
to go through? I just need a break, And you
begin to murmur, and it's like, but God has delivered
you so many times in the past. And you just
invoke the name of the Lord, which is a strong power,
and you flee into that space with him and you
can be safe. And you say, God, you said that
you would be my resting place. I am not feeling
RESTful at this moment. To all generations, would it just
help me to embrace you as my resting place? Will
you teach me to speak of you with the truth
and reality of who you are? You see in Malachi
and Malachi chapter three. You know, the Bible says that
God listens, and he even writes down in a book
like he listens to what we say about him. There
are people who are choosing no longer to be his
people because they say, well, what does it What does
it benefit us to do what God says? Why should
we continue to do and live according to His will?
What benefit is it to me? And he says, I'm
hearing you. I'm hearing you. It's your false witness. I'm
hearing you with your provocations. I'm hearing you testifying in
a way that is not true about me. And then
he said, I am also hearing. I'm hearing my people
who are continuing to be faithful, and those individuals he
also marks, and he said that he's basically drawing a
line in the sand between those who love him and
who are for him and those who really just continue
to rebel. Yeah, and so in verse thirteen of the
same chapter, the Bible says that he divided the sea
and caused them to pass through on dry land, and
he made the waters stand up as a heap. Now,
how could we turn our backs onto God? Who can
do that? Are you serious? Do you realize what a
sea is like? How do you cause the sea to
stand up and cause the bad of the sea to
be dry so that your people can walk through? What
a God? With those same people, God forbid? Some people
like us, God forbid? They said, you know what, m M,
God is not faithful?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, even as his people rebelled, God continued to
provide miraculous deliverance, even as they were leaving captivity. And
then one more, one more, for he remembered that they
were but flesh, a wind that passeth away and cometh
not again. In verse thirty nine. God has compassion and
he is passionate, but he is grieved by evil. Stop
grieving him. 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,