New Every Morning
In the ruins of a fallen city, one voice still counts on mercy that does not run out.
The book of Lamentations is made of grief. It was written after Jerusalem fell, and most of it reads like a sob held too long. Then, near the middle, the tone 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 what the writer does not say. He does not say the ruin was imagined, or that the pain had passed. He says only that it had not finished him. Something held.
The image is daily. Not a single rescue, but a mercy that arrives again each morning, before you have earned it or asked.
If today feels like a holding on rather than a moving forward, this is a verse to keep. You do not need to feel faithful to receive faithfulness. You need only the next morning, and the One who meets it.
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