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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, August

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twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series through the Book of Mark and our

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caption for today is Childlike Qualities. Childlike Qualities. We'll get

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into that in jail a moment, but first I'd like

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to say welcome to you and ask you to please

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book,

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and let us know where you are in the world.

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At your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.

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Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this day.

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Thank you for giving us the opportunity to pray, and

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for the Holy Spirit who teaches us. Father, I pray

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that we will value our children and also that you

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will show us how to have childlike faith, have childlike

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trust in you. Father, Please teach us the blessing of children.

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In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I

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just want to say that my son, our son, Josiah,

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teaches me how to be a father. He teaches me fatherhood.

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Maybe that's a better way of saying it, like it's obvious,

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like if you have a child, then you learn more

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about fatherhood if you're a dad, right, because you have

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the child. But it's not that. What I'm saying is

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I did not get the I did not get the

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understanding of fatherhood from my dad. But somehow God saw

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fit to give us a man child. And through the

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relationship of this manchild and I I am able to

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understand what I didn't understand as a man child myself.

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God has a wonderful way of bringing us into understanding

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and to bring us into relationship with him. There are

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things that I understand about my connection with God now

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because of Josiah, and I'm like God, I thank you

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because I couldn't have calculated this. I couldn't have planned it.

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If I had planned it, I would have planned it

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another way, you know what I mean, and then been

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off track. So God gives us ways, and your story

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may be different. He gives us all ways to see

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and appreciate childlike qualities so we can have a right

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relationship with God and right standing with him. Okay, so

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that sounds all well and good. But let's go ahead

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and begin reading from the book Desire of Ages, page

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five hundred eleven and see where we can go from here. Okay,

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And it reads Jesus was ever a lover of children.

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So if you're if you are, Almos said, if you're

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a child, you are obviously someone's child. Doesn't matter what

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your age is. Right, Maybe you didn't feel loved by

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your parents, or maybe you did. I don't know, but

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Jesus was a lover of children. He accepted their childish

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sympathy and their open, unaffected love so they didn't put

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boundaries on this thing. They had a way of brightening

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up and opening up in relationship that didn't have all

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of the filters that humans have, didn't have all of

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the discrimination that adults have. Right, these children were open

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and their love didn't have all these unnecessary boundaries. Let

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me keep reading. Their grateful praise from their pure lips

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was music in his ears and refreshed his spirit when

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oppressed by contact with crafty and hypocritical men. I hope

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you heard that the language was complex, I admitted. So

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he had people that were supposed to be his people.

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I'm talking about grown folks who were leading among the

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fellowship of believers if you want to say, the synagogue

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at the time, and those individuals who were supposed to

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be a welcome place, who were supposed to be a

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place of reprieve so that they, together, them and Christ

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could go into the world to win people for the kingdom.

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But instead he found hypocrisy, He found criticism, he found hatred,

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He found people who were really kind of wanting to

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kill him, and some who would have if they had

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the opportunity. I'm talking about early right, But somehow the

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father positioned children in Jesus's life, that when they would

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give their love, when they would give their praise, when

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they would show sympathy toward Jesus, when they would show affection,

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it was like it was like water to refresh a

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dry soul. You see what I'm where I'm saying where

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I'm coming from here, And so we need to learn

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how to appreciate the children that God puts into our

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space and not see them as a burden, not see

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them as an interruption to the things that we would

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like to do today, not to see them as blockers

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and air quotes those who know, No, you know what

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I'm saying, right, If you don't, don't worry about it,

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it doesn't apply to you. We are to see our

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children and children in general, as what a heritage from

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the Lord. That means an inheritance. How do you feel

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when you get an inheritance? You may not know what

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it feels like, But if you today, whatever your financial

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status is, if you receive an inheritance of a million

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US dollars, how would you feel about that? You see

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where I'm coming from. If you were to receive an

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additional ten million US dollars as an inheritance how would

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you feel about that? And so these children are an inheritance,

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God said through the Psalms to us, And so the Bible,

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I mean, the quote continues. Wherever the Savior went, the

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beignignity of his countenance and his gentle, kindly manner won

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the love and confidence of children. When you're around children,

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they are they drawn to you? Or are they afraid

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of you? Do they want to talk to you and

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hear from you? Do they want to touch your face?

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Do they want to give you hugs? A Are they

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drawn to you or are they afraid of you? Are

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they drawn to you? Or do they show distrust of you? Yeah? Well,

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I will leave that right where it is. We're going

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to page five hundred and twenty three. To those who,

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like the young Ruler, are in high positions of trust

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and have great possessions. It may seem too great a

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sacrifice to give up all in order to follow Christ.

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But this is the rule of conduct for all who

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would become as disciples. Nothing short of obedience can be accepted.

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Self surrender is the substance of the teachings of Christ.

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Often it is presented and en joined in language that

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seems authoritative, because there is no other way to save

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me man than to cut away those things, which, if entertained,

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will demoralize the whole being. There are times that we

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have to hear like children who are being corrected. There

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are times that when God comes to us, we have

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to hear it like a loving parent who is stern,

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who is authoritative, not having any other interest except our

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best interest at heart. We have to hear it that

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way because otherwise we would take it too lightly. There

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are times that God has to chide us. There are

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times that he has to chastise us. He said, like

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children whom I love, I chastise you, I rebuke you.

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I'm not treating you like fatherless children. I am treating

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you like the one who has accepted you in the

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beloved Jesus Christ. And there are times that you have

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to be corrected, and it's painful. I get it, and

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so I thank God for giving us a well rounded

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reality about childlike qualities. Children who know that they are

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loved take the discipline. They take the discipline from loving parents.

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And so first of all, we want us to cherish

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these childlike qualities. We want to value simplicity in worship. See,

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children don't have complicated worship thoughts. We want to embrace

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the refreshing spirit of children, and we also want to

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be in obedience. It's a non negotiable in discipleship or

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relationship with God. And of course we want to sacrifice

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self for the blessing of others. Make it a great day, peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,