New Every Morning
From Lamentations, a line written in grief that has become a line read in hope.
"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)
These words sit in the middle of a book of mourning. The city has fallen. The writer has catalogued loss without flinching. And then, in the third chapter, the tone turns. Not because the trouble has lifted, but because the writer remembers something older than the trouble.
Compassion that is new every morning is worth sitting with. It does not say yesterday's mercy was rationed out and spent. It says mercy arrives again with the light, unearned and on time, the way bread was once gathered day by day.
If you are tired this morning, you do not have to manufacture the hope in this verse. The point is that it is renewed, not summoned. The faithfulness belongs to God. Our part is only to notice it.
Read the line slowly. Let the morning make its small case.
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