New Every Morning
Lamentations offers mercy that resets with the dawn.
Lamentations 3:22-23 reads: "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."
The book these words come from is mostly grief. It mourns a ruined city and a people undone. That is what makes this passage strange. In the middle of the wreckage, the writer stops counting losses and starts counting mercies instead.
Notice the timing. The compassion is not stored up from long ago. It is new every morning, delivered fresh, before you have done anything to deserve it. Yesterday's supply is spent. Today's has already arrived.
This is a verse for the tired reader. You do not have to carry last night into this morning. The faithfulness is great, and it does not run down. Whatever the day holds, you meet it with a mercy that is new.
Rest in that first. Then begin.
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New Every Morning
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