Mercies for the Morning
Lamentations speaks of a love that does not run out, even in a book shaped by loss.
The book of Lamentations is a set of poems written in grief, after the fall of Jerusalem. Much of it is hard reading. It does not look away from ruin. And yet, near its centre, it turns.
"Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:22–23)
Notice the timing. The mercies are new every morning. They are not stored up once and slowly spent. They arrive again with the light, before anything is asked of us, before the day has proved anything about us.
This is a quiet claim, but a large one. The love is described as great, and the compassions as unfailing. That word, unfailing, is worth sitting with. It does not promise an easy day. It promises a supply that the day cannot exhaust.
If you are tired this morning, you need not manufacture the supply. It is said to be already there, renewed, waiting for the one who wakes to it.
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New Every Morning
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New Every Morning
In the ruins of a fallen city, one poet found a mercy that had not run out.
New Every Morning
A line from Lamentations holds steady when the days blur together.
