New Every Morning
A line from Lamentations holds steady when the days blur together.
Some mornings arrive before we are ready for them. The work from yesterday is still on the table. The worry has not moved.
Into that, the book of Lamentations speaks. It was written in grief, after the fall of Jerusalem. The writer has seen the worst. And yet, in the middle of the lament, he says this:
"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 where the hope sits. Not in a change of circumstance. The city is still in ruins. The hope sits in a mercy that does not run out.
New every morning. That is the claim. Not stored from last year. Not rationed. Given again, today, for today.
You do not have to carry the whole week at once. You are asked only to receive what this morning brings. Read the line slowly. Then begin.
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