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, February 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, God's Love and Justice. Our caption for today
is God's Changeless Character, God's Changeless Character. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I like to
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This is one of the ways that 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 new day and for loving us
beyond our capacity to comprehend. We are grateful Father that
you have given us every spiritual blessing. In Christ. Jesus,
please help us to know and live according to the
truth that you do not change. In Jesus' name, I
pray Amen and a man again. God's changeless character. What
does that mean to you that God's character does not change.
I will tell you that based on my behavior style,
and I don't even mean from a spiritual perspective, just
the way that God has wired me. I love the
fact that his character doesn't change. I like things to
be consistent. I like stability. I like a certain level
of predictability. And please don't take me too too far
with that one. But I like the fact that when
I wake up in the morning, let's talk about something else.
That the ground is where I expect for it to be.
When I take my feet, I spin around and I'm
barely awake, and I put my feet down. I like
the fact that the floor is there. And then beneath
the floor and the foundation of my home, the ground
is right where I left it yesterday. And I say
I left it, Yeah, for a fact, but it's still
where I thought it would be, because it's consisting instantly there.
And God's character of love, his character of justice and
drive for righteousness. I love the fact that I don't
have to be confused from day to day. Does God
still love me? I don't need to be confused about that?
Is He still holy? I do not need to be
confused about that. Has He changed his mind about filling
the blank X or filling the blank? Why? I don't
need to be confused about that? And the Bible says
here in the Book of Malachi Malachi chapter three, so much.
In Malachi chapter three it says, for I am the Lord,
I change not. Therefore, ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
What wait a minute, God doesn't change and that's why
we're not consumed. Wow, there is so much to say there.
But let's go to the Bible. Book of James James,
chapter one, and we will read verse seventeen the Bible
Book of James, chapter one, and we will read in
verse seventeen, Every good gift, how many good gifts, Every
good gift, and every perfect gift is from above and
cometh down from the Father of Lights, with whom is
no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Let me read it
in another version. All generous giving and every perfect gift
is from above. So if you are looking for a
spiritual blessing, it comes from God. If you need something
practical and temporal in your life, you need food, water, clothing, shelter,
you need comfort or peace. God is the one that
gives this. It comes from Him, coming from the Father
of Lights, with whom is no variation. And I just
want to stick right there for a moment. We see
the moon has phases. Look at your calendar, and if
you're not able to see it in the sky with
your naked eye, just look at your calendar. Look at
a moon phase calendar. You see that the way that
we see the moon from planet Earth has phases, and
the light doesn't look the same depending on the face. Also,
we have clouds that even cover the sun from our perspective.
When we're looking up to the sky, there are times
that there are clouds that seem to make the sun
go away, except the sun hasn't gone anywhere. But with God,
there is no variableness when we see him. It is
always light, when we see how he moves in and
among people, even if we don't fully understand it, it
is always light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Let me continue, there is no variation or the slightest
hint of change. Let me go to verse eighteen. By
his sovereign plan, he gives us birth through the message
of truth. And so we know now the standard of
this truth, this reality is truth, that we would be
a kind of first fruits of all he created. So again,
I happen to like the fact that he doesn't change.
You mean, even when you want him to do something
and you've asked him for something in prayer and he
doesn't do it. Yeah, And even when you go back
to him and he doesn't change his mind. Yes, I
like that, even if I don't like necessarily the discussion
that we're having at the moment. And I know from
his changeless character perspective that all things are working for
my good, because this is a baseline, This is a
foundational truth. All things are working for my good because
God is intentional, never changing, in the sense that what
he does or does not do is so that He
is glorified, and that I am edified as a human being.
That God is glorified, and I am edified both and
at the same time, I'm thankful. I'm thankful for this.
And so the lesson writer says God does enter into
back and forth relationships with his creation, but through all
such back and forth relationships and through everything else, God's
character is constant. So yes, there is a conversation. You see, Moses.
There was a time when God said, come here, Moses,
I need to talk to you. I'm about to destroy
my people, and listen, I can create a new nation
from you. I'm going to create a new nation, but
I'm gonna destroy this one. And Moses is saying, but God, please,
please don't do that, like block me out of your book. God,
block me out of your book, rather than to do that.
And by the way, like if you do that, then
the people in the surrounding your enemies will say that
you brought your people out of captivity to destroy them.
Like they will be confused about your character. And then
the Bible says that God did not destroy his people.
Now there's a long story about whether God was going
to destroy or not, but I won't get into that today.
But the fact is, even that discussion, back and forth,
back and forth, at the base of it, at the
foundation of it was God's constant and consistent character. God
is not the source of evil. He is not the
source of confusion. And so I really want to just
jump in now to the companion Guide, the Your Daily
Portion Companion Guide. Let's go to page ninety ninety three
and go with the personal application doub in the acronym
for when dou w what is important now. God's unchanging
character reassures that he is dependable even when everything around
us shifts. This gives us confidence to face life's challenges
with the assurance that God's love and support will not waiver.
I internalize the insight. Identify areas in your life where
you have felt uncertain or anxious. Recognize that while circumstances
may change God's character and promises, do not allow this
truth to bring peace and comfort. I want you to
go into the community a little bit later, go ahead
and type in the next best move and we will
continue to win together 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,