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, March nineteen,
twenty twenty six. 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 uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in Philippians and Colossians,
and our caption for today is Walking in Wisdom, Walking
in Wisdom. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
get underway. Father, We thank you for your wisdom. Thank
you for being wisdom to us. Please help us to
ask and receive in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and
Amen again. So I have shared with you a few
times that a prayer besides Lord, please give me your
Holy Spirit, a prayer that I pray every day is Lord,
give me please double the wisdom of Solomon. I don't
have the time to tell you why I pray that
prayer in particular, but it's based on my calling, okay,
And so God is wanting us to walk in wisdom.
Solomon said, I don't know how to lead this your people,
so please will you give me the wisdom that I need.
The Bible writer said that if we lack wisdom, we
need to ask of God who will give us liberally
and will not will not withhold any and so and
so it is important for God's people to continue to
ask for wisdom. And Proverbs chapter eight, if you study
it closely, when you get toward, you know, the middle
to the last part of the chapter, you will notice
that the attributes of the person or what's being personified
there absolutely, uncategorically is Jesus Christ. And so when we
ask for wisdom, we are really asking for Christ to
be in our lives. And you're like, well, can you
prove it outside of Proverbs chapter eight. Well, of course,
Paul actually taught us in First Corinthians chapter one, verses
thirty and thirty one, among other things, Jesus is our wisdom, okay.
And so our first lesson comes in from Colossians chapter
four and verse five. Colossians chapter four and verse five,
where the Bible reads, walk in wisdom toward them that
are without redeeming the time. Let me say it another way,
conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders. Do you have encounters
with people who are not yet children of God, who
have not yet said yes to God and live for
Him today? When you encounter them, the Bible writer is saying,
to conduct yourselves with wisdom. Well, where do we get
the wisdom we ask of God? Are we sure that
we will have the wisdom so we don't have to
make up stuff? You know what? There are times, as
I ask that question, there are times that Christian Eese
speaking people make up all kinds of new machinery, all
kinds of trying to contrive new methods. We sit in
committee meetings sometimes trying to reinvent the wheel. And in
fact God is saying, to come to me, I will
show you the wisdom, especially the wisdom toward people who
do not yet have faith in God. And as you
lift up Jesus, I will draw people to myself. And
so conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most
of the opportunity. So our lesson number one is wisdom
has lived and not just known. Wisdom is lived and
not just known. We are not asking God to make
us a sage. We're not asking God to have us
to be mounted atop the pinnacle of somewhere where people
will look up to us and say, all thou with wisdom,
endow us with filling the blank. No, we are asking
God for his wisdom because in his presence, we are
able to help people who don't yet know God. Paul
places wisdom in motion. Truth revealed must become the truth
we live or practice. The focus here is not life
inside of the church building those edifices that we created,
but life before those who don't yet believe. I'm talking
about at the gym. I'm talking about in that taxi.
I'm talking about in other public transportation. I'm talking about
when you're in the supermarket. I'm talking about when you
are at Carnation Market or Linsted Market, or the market
in Montego Bay, or wherever it is in the world
that you buy your produce. I'm talking about in our
day to day activities, maybe on your job. Outsiders often
encounter the gospel first because of you and for those
listening on the radio, we're still here. I just need
that to settle in because of you, not because of
Like sometimes I drive by billboards. I've purchased billboards before.
I'm talking about the big ones that big like a
bus big billboards. Sometimes I walk by billboard or drive
by billboards that have interesting messaging that's supposed to be
like godly messaging, but I don't have time to deal
with the ones that I'm talking about in my head.
But sometimes people think if they splatter these these stark
and like arresting things on a billboard, that somehow somebody's
going to get converted. And maybe you know, God will
do something in spite of us, but it will be
indeed and in fact in spite of us, considering some
of the ones that I'm talking about, Like some people
think that the outsiders driving by the KFC sign will
also see that other sign that they made up and
suddenly become holy. Well, that makes daily behavioral witness. We
need to be. We need to live among the people
and live like Jesus lived like brighten the corner where
we are. And if you're going to put up a billboard,
at least put up the message that God has given
to us. I digress, I digress. So this walking means
to conduct, It means to live, to order one's life,
to move through daily conduct. And so what God wants
us to do and this action is to be intentional
about how you live in public spaces. Let consistency, integrity,
and calm reflect Christ before words are ever spoken. And
when I say like I hate that, I have to
qualify everything, but we kind of do. When I said
in public spaces, I'm saying that because that's where the
people observe us. That is not to the exclusion of
our personal devotion. I used to ask this question back
in the day when I was teaching the Bible, even
more than I do now. Can you believe it? I
remember asking people like, if I am locked up, I
made this up? Like if I'm locked up in a
room where nobody is and no one ever will know
what happens in that room, only my own brain, and
maybe I don't even utter what's in my brain, so
no sound is attached to what I'm about to say next,
How does it impact other people? So if I am
entertaining wicked thoughts, it doesn't matter which one it is,
but I'm entertaining those in my mind, so I'm sinning
in my brain and I don't ever act it out.
I made this up. Does it have an impact on
other people? Yes?
Speaker 1: Or no?
Speaker 2: If I'm locked up in a room, it's just me
and my brain, and I don't speak or act on
the things that I'm doing in my brain that are
not according to God's will? Does it have an impact
on other people? And of course, the answer is yes,
because when people come to us, when people experience us,
it's only as we are in full alignment with God
in our thoughts that our conduct can have the impact
that it needs to have.
Speaker 1: Make it a joining us peaking 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,