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 Sabbath, March eight,
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 what
more could I Have done? What more could I have done?
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father, I do thank
you for giving us the privilege of coming into your
presence this Sabbath morning, and for loving us enough to
give us your son. Father, Please fill us with your
Holy spirit today in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
Amen again. What more could I have done? I'm going
to read a passage of scripture and then a story
right out of the lesson study, and let's see what
we can glean also from our companion guide in applying
this to our personal lives. Okay, So from the Bible
Book of John, chapter eighteen and verse thirty seven, the
Bible reads Pilot therefore said unto him, are you a king?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 2: Jesus answered, you say rightly that I am a king
for this cause I was born, and for this cause
I have come into the world, that I should bear
witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth
hears my voice. I just want to settle down right
there for one moment before we get into the actual lesson.
If you are not regularly hearing the voice of God,
and when I say voice, it doesn't always need to
be audible. But when I say voice, I am saying
if you are not regularly sensing the guidance of God,
which he has promised by the way he promised that
he will be with us, he promised never to forsake us. Well,
if you are not regularly experiencing the guidance of God
and at times just being very clear, being very aware
that He is with you, and knowing the direction, the
pathway that you should be taking, then the question is
are you am I of the truth? Am I of
the truth? If I am not sensing God's words, sensing
his presence in my life, seeing that He is guiding
me along the pathway of righteousness, then am I of
the truth? Okay, we'll get into that throughout the week.
If the Lord spaars life, so let me read this
story directly out of the lesson you have it you
can follow along some years ago and inspire in oh
part of me not inspirational and insightful. Children's story was
printed in Guide magazine. The story focuses on a boy
named Dennis and orphan living as a foster child with
a family in medieval times. Dennis passionately hates the King
of his land, because when his parents are sick, the
King's soldiers carried him away and he never saw them again.
Only later did he learn that the King separated them
in order to spare the living all the horrors of
the black plague. The truth about the King sets Dennis
free from the hatred that he had harbored against his
against him his entire life. The King had always and
in every case, acted out of love for his people.
Did you get that? Now, let's make it make sense.
Many people today view God somewhat like Denis viewed the King.
The evil they have witnessed or experienced brings them to
hate or dismiss God. Where is God when there is suffering?
If God is God, why is there so much evil?
The Cosmic conflict sheds light on this crucial issue, But
many questions remain. Yet, when all our attempts at answers
fail to satisfy, we can look to Jesus on the
cross and see in him that God can be trusted,
even with all the questions that remain unanswered. And get
this last part for now. There are many questions. Why
do bad things happen to good people? Bad things happen
to Jesus? Why does it seem like the evil or
the wicked prosper. Well, they don't say seems why does
the wicked prosper? Why do the wicked people prosper? Well?
Do they? What does it mean to prosper? Are you
talking about material wealth? Are you talking about it? Seems
that they have blissened their families? Well to what end?
You know, these things have an expiry date on planet Earth.
So really, our focus should not be other people. Our
focus should be connection with God every single day that
we live. You see in the story that Dennis Dennis
because he had an immature mindset, and he should like
he's he was a young boy. But some of us,
some of us have immature mindsets as fully grown believers
in air quotes, are we believers if we don't actually
believe what God says? But anyway, Dennis as a young boy,
he has an immature mindset, understandably so. But then we
see in the story that the king was looking out
for him. The black plague was running through the population,
and the king had to separate so that the people
would not be destroyed by the plague. Yeah, maybe we
could say in twenty twenty five, looking way back to
those days. Well, that should have been communicated. I get it.
But you know what, sometimes the king, the king of
the universe, is not going to communicate the minute details
to us. And if we have a mature spiritual mindset
when we are in relationship with God, then we, like
Job say, though he slay me, yet will I trust
in him? And really and truly God was not slaying Job,
but that was his perspective while he was under pressure.
I've never heard a preacher say that God was not
actually slaying Job. You let that settle in Like, God
was not slaying Job, but Job felt that he was.
And so if God in fact is slaying me, I
will still trust in him. Remember the three Hebrew young
men Michel Hananayah as a Riah as they were about
to be thrown into the fiery furnace, and the king
was saying, listen, all you have to do is bow,
just like the devil said to Jesus. All you have
to do is bow, and I will give you whatever
positive outcome fill in the blank here. And they said,
we do not want that reward. We don't want to
save our lives if it means to bow and do
something evil. Our God will in fact and indeed deliver us.
But if he does not, If he does not, we
still this is what they said, We still will not bow.
And I'm like, Okay, God, give me that kind of faith.
Please give every person under the sound of my voice
that kind of faith. And so we go into our
our Life Application guide. I'm going to page one hundred
and sixty seven here and we're going to the personal application. Okay,
Remember we're looking for a win win. What is important
now when facing personal challenges, Remember that God's love is constant,
even in moments of suffering. Just like Dennis misunderstood the
King's intentions, we too might misinterpret God's actions in our
lives when we don't see the complete picture. I internalize
the insight. Consider times in your life when you felt
distant from God or misunderstood his actions. How has this
understanding of his love through Jesus Christ changed your perspective?
And now we need action. The next best move in
invest time in prayer, asking God for the wisdom to
trust him even when his plans don't seem clear. Well,
God doesn't tell us everything, but what he does to
Thanks for joining us listening to his 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,