Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 7.1.26

Steve Harvey opens with a piece of advice his wife learned from her father: "Just because you can do something don't mean you should do it." He says he has had to learn that lesson repeatedly in his own life. He could tell people off, he could set the record straight, but doing so would not always be the right move. The episode is built around this single idea—restraint as a spiritual discipline—and Harvey walks through what it has cost him to learn it, what scripture taught him about surviving attacks, and how he distinguishes his own impulses from what God is actually telling him to do.

The difference between ability and wisdom

Harvey frames the central tension as a gap between what you are capable of doing and what you should actually do. He says he has learned "the hard way" that it is often better to be still and let God handle a situation. The impulse to act comes from a desire to feel better or to make someone else feel what you feel, but that impulse is not always wise. He connects this to a broader principle: he has to obey the same laws of success and the same spiritual principles as anyone else. There is no special exemption. "I gotta obey the principles of success. If I want to be successful, I gotta be up. And you know, if I want to go to heaven, I gotta do what God tells me to do. As many times as I can." The point is not perfection but surrender—letting go