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 Monday, March
thirty one, 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
new lesson study series how to Study Bible Prophecy, and
our caption for today is God wants to be understood.
Wants to be understood. We'll get into that in just
a moment, but before we do, I'd like to say
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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 in Heaven, thank you
for giving us this new day and for the privilege
that we have to study your word to be able
to hear from you. And I ask you, Father to
help us to get it in our minds that you
really do want for us to understand you. In Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen and a man again. Let me just
say something really quickly as we begin here, that God
is not playing pikaboo with us. And for those of
you who are not familiar wherever you are in the
world with the concept of pekaboo, I want you to
look it up on the internet. Pee ka boo. It's
a game that children play with their parents many times.
But God is not playing peek a boo with us.
And he's also not playing hide and seek. That's another one.
Look that up if you're not familiar. I know every
culture of the world doesn't necessarily play these games. But
God is not putting himself in a position where he
cannot be found and making it difficult for humans to
actually connect with him. That is not what's happening. And
sometimes people become frustrated because we have the wrong an
idea about God and have the wrong perspective and think
this is exactly what God is doing, and when we
are not able to find him or discern him, then
we get really, really really confused. And it's not that
at all. What God wants is to find for us
to find him. In fact, the Bible says that Jesus Christ,
when he came into human flesh, his name was to
be called the Manuel. That being interpreted God with us.
You see. So God has in the Old Testament made
his tabernacle or his tent with us, which is why
we have everything we know about the sanctuary, so that
we can be saved. Okay, And so the truth is
that there are other reasons why we may not understand God.
Now let's go into the Bible Book of Psalms, the
Bible Book of Psalms, chapter one thirty nine, and begin
with verse one. Okay, Oh Lord, you examine me and
know you know when I sit down, and when I
get up, even from far away, you understand. You carefully
observe me. When I travel or lie down to rest.
You are aware of everything I do. Certainly my tongue
does not frame a word without you, oh Lord, being
thoroughly aware of it. You squeeze me from behind, and
in front, you place your hand on me. Your knowledge
is beyond comprehension. It is far beyond me, and I
am unable to understand or fathom it. We'll come back
to the thought in a second. Just give me a moment.
Psalm chapter one, forty seven and verse five. The Bible says,
great is our Lord, and of great power. His understanding
is infinite. I think you can see where this is going.
Just give me a second. And Romans chapter eleven, verse
thirty three, the Bible reads, Oh, the depth of the
riches and wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are
his judgments, and how unfathomable are his ways or his
ways past? Finding out one more? First John chapter three,
verse twenty, the Bible reads that if your conscience condemns,
our conscience condemns us. God is greater than our conscience,
and he knows all things. So we're going to look
at a few areas of contrast between God and us. Okay,
a few areas of contrast. Let's go with the scope
the scope God. He is infinite. God is unlimited. Well, humans,
by contrast, are finite. We are limited in all ways.
Number two the death God. He is complete in his comprehension.
He knows everything and understands everything. Well, humans have a
surface understanding. We see some things, we may be able
to discern something about them, but there are always illimitable
spaces that we cannot even begin to understand, even in
the things on planet Earth, much less in the eternal things. Okay.
Number three Time God, past, present, and future. He's the
one who was, the one who is the one who
is to come. He's the eternal one. Blessed be his name.
But we were limited by time. We are limited by
time even when we enter into eternity as people who
have yielded our will to God. I'm looking forward to
the time that we will begin to inhabit eternity with God.
Even then we will have had an origin, though we
will have started somewhere. Yes, we will go throughout the
ceaseless ages of eternity. If we're God's children. Ah, but
we started somewhere. God didn't start anywhere. He's the one
that was there from before there was a beginning. He's
the one who has all ways been and then comes intimacy.
God he knows the thoughts and motives of every human being,
every being for that matter. But we we get mixed
up about each other's motives. Why did you say that
this way? You look really wonderful today, But what did
I look like yesterday? You see what I mean? So
we often misunderstand the thoughts and motives of others. And
let me just give you a newsflash here. Sometimes we
don't even understand our own thoughts and our own motives.
The Bible says that the heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked. Who can know it? But God knows
and understands the thoughts and motives all the time. And
then finally, the final category accuracy. God has perfect knowledge.
Humans don't. Okay, that's too simple. We have we're prone
to make errors, mistakes, error, sometimes forced errors. Errors. Okay,
God perfect knowledge, but we are prone to err. Okay,
And so now we go through the fact that even
though we will never know and understand everything. We can
understand what is necessary for connecting with God. And so
the Bible reads in Two Timothy, chapter three, Verses fourteen
and fifteen. You, however, must continue in the things you
have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you,
and how from infancy you have known the holy writings
of the scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom
for salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. You see, So
now we can go into the word of God. Those
sixty six blessed books, that the Holy Spirit moved upon
them who were writing Ah and gave them the power
to communicate the thoughts of God in that context. So
that is where we begin. We begin with God's word.
We begin with how it all relates to our salvation,
and whenever we lack wisdom, we ask of God. And
I wish I had the time. But there are some
other things we need to recognize, as God being the creator,
the creator, and that he universally loves us. And there
is a prophetic purpose. There's a prophetic purpose where God
is not going to do anything important without first revealing
it through his servants.
Speaker 1: The prophets make it a great day, 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,