Mercies That Arrive With the Light
The morning brings not only work and worry but a fresh supply of grace.
The book of Lamentations mourns the ruin of a city. Its poet had watched everything fall. And yet, in the middle of that grief, the poem stops to say something that has outlasted the rubble.
"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."
Read it slowly. The claim is not that the pain is small. The claim is that the mercy is larger, and that it does not run out.
Notice the timing. The mercies are new every morning. They are not stockpiled for the strong. They come with the light, before you have done anything to earn them, measured out one day at a time.
If you are tired, that is the point. You are not asked to carry tomorrow today. You are asked to receive what this morning holds, and then to rise again when the next one comes.
So begin here. Whatever yesterday cost you, it did not empty the store. The compassion that met you then is waiting again now, fresh, and sufficient for the hours in front of you.
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