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03 25 2024 Peace of a Weaned Child · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect 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 going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good
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  morning. It is Monday, March twenty five, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series for this
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  final week through the Book of Psalms, and our caption for today is piece
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  of a Weaned Child, Piece of a Weaned Child. We'll get it to
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  that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you
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  and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join
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  our online community pick up your Daily Portion book. Also, let us know
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  where you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is
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  a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
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  pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
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  for giving us the opportunity to be called by your name and to continue into
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  this work week. Father, Please give us understanding, teach us how to
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  connect with you, because you have welcomed us into your presence. In Jesus'
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  name, I pray, Amen and a man again. So the lesson writer
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  interestingly says this, God's people live in a world that afflicts the faithful,
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  a world full of temptations and hardship for almost everyone. A refreshed conviction that
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  he is a child of God and dependent on God for his life consoles the
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  Psalmist and brings him to confess that his pride has no value. The deceitfulness
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  of pride is that it causes the proud to become self centered and unable to
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  look beyond themselves. The proud are thus blinded to the higher reality of God.
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  Now this is very interesting to me, because really and truly, if
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  I'm dependent upon my mother for sustenance, I'm a baby. Can't even hold
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  up my head. I am dependent upon her breast milk for sustenance if you
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  superimpose that on my life as an adult. And I am dependent upon God
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  for my daily bread, for my daily spiritual bread, for everything that is
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  my life, my breath, my strength, my intelligence, my intellect,
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  my emotional stability, and on and on. We can go at infinitum forever.
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  And I become proud and say, God, I don't like how you're
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  doing my life. I don't like what it is that you say that my
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  life should look like. I'm not in agreement with you. How proud is
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  that? And so the lesson writer aptly has us to look at Psalm chapter
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  one hundred thirty one, and I will read beginning at verse one, and
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  the Bible reads, oh Lord, my heart is not proud, thank God,
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  Nor do I have a haughty look. I do not have great aspirations
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  or concern myself with things that are beyond me. One thing that we say
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  in Jamaica is sometimes people fast in other people's business, or in big people's
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  business. And basically what this is saying is that some people are into what
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  others are doing, rather than worrying about what I'm supposed to be doing.
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  Have you ever heard that is above my pay grade? Yeah, there are
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  people who even at work at your workplace, organization, company, or whatever,
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  sometimes the management has already made a decision about a thing, and it's
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  not an ethics problem, it's not a moral problem. It's just a way
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  that they have chosen to operate, and then some people have such big problems
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  with it that it becomes a point of gossip and contention. Well, the
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  Bible writer is saying that I'm not going to be like that toward God.
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  When God makes a judgment in heaven, I am going to agree with him.
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  No matter what trials or tribulations I go through. No matter what God
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  brings my way or allows me to go through, I am going to trust
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  him. I am not proud. I don't have a proud look, and
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  my aspirations are only really what God wants for me to do. I'm not
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  going to add anything to it. Whatever the calling is that God is placed
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  on my life, that is what I am going to explore. And the
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  Bible continues verse two. Indeed, I have calmed and quieted myself like a
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  weaned child with its mother. I am content like a young child. Oh,
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  Israel, hope in the Lord now and forever more. You see,
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  the Bible writer is welcoming other people into a right relationship with God, the
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  kind of relationship where confession is a standard. And when I say confession,
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  I don't mean just saying out loud what I have done wrong. That's not
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  what I'm saying. I'm talking about agreement with God. Holiness and confession are
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  agreement with God. Whatever God's judgment, his what he says is about my
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  life, then I agree with that. This is what we're talking about.
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  And so I have calmed and quieted myself like a weaned child with its mother.
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  Have you ever been in a situation where you were not quiet, where
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  you are not peaceful, You didn't like how things were going on the job.
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  It was a relationship breach with someone that you really loved, maybe even
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  were romantically involved in or with excuse me, or maybe your health condition has
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  gone in a way that nobody planned and it's not something that makes God happy
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  because you're in pain or somehow going through a struggle that it's way too difficult
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  for you in your mind to bear. And God is saying, just like
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  I took care of job in his deepest trials, just like I took care
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  of Jesus as he was in the garden of Gethsemane, sweating as it were
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  great drops of blood, just like I took care of Christ while he was
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  on the cross, crying out, My God, My God, why have
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  thou forsaken me? I am able to take care of you. The Bible
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  writer is saying, Oh, Israel, I want you to hope in God
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  in this same way that I am learning, and do it forever more.
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  What I want to do now is see what we can draw from Psalm chapter
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  one hundred and thirty one, besides what I have rambled on about some specific
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  lessons and some other points in scripture. Okay, and so in verse one
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  we see humility before God. My heart is not proud, so we see
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  humility. We have to humble ourselves. We have to learn, by God's
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  grace, the importance of humility and recognizing our limitations before the infinite knowledge and
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  wisdom of God. We don't know enough to argue with God. We don't
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  know enough to be disconcerted by what he does or does not do. What
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  we need to know is that He's a good God. How good is He
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  He's so good that no matter what we go through, no matter what we're
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  confused about, he can take us through the trials. He does not always
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  deliver us, but he does deliver us through. He doesn't always deliver us
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  from, but he delivers us through. We don't always understand, but he
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  said, don't lean to your own understanding in all of your ways. Brothers
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  and sisters, acknowledge Him, and he will direct your path. So we
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  learn humility from verse one before God. From verse two we learn contentment and
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  trust. Remember it says I have learned to be calm and quieted myself.
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  This is a deliberate and active choice contentment in whatever station I find myself,
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  whether I abound or I am abased, I find contentment. Whether I have
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  food or food and raiment, right, clothing and shelter, I am content.
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  This imagery reflects a deep sense of contentment and trust in God, trust
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  in the wisdom and knowledge of God. Trust in God as much as a
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  child trusts in the care of its mother. And then the insignificance of pride.
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  It doesn't make sense to be proud, brothers and sisters, because no
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  matter what decisions we make, when we're proud. They have to be undone.
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  We cannot trust in our own understanding. We can't trust in our own
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  wisdom because if we do, this means that we are selfish, yes,
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  and our understanding of conplex matters. They go beyond our grasp and we pay
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  the penalty. So there's so many lessons to learn. But let's be peaceful
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  like a child is peaceful and content in his or her mother's grass. A
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  wonderful day. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,