New Every Morning
Lamentations sets its hope not in a change of circumstance but in a mercy that arrives again at first light.
Today's reading is Lamentations 3:22-23 (NIV): "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."
These words sit inside a book of grief. The writer has watched a city fall and does not pretend otherwise. The sorrow is real, and it is named plainly. Yet in the middle of the lament comes this turn.
Notice the claim. The mercy is not stored up once and spent. It is renewed. Each morning brings its own supply, matched to the day it meets.
That is a quiet thing to hold onto when you are tired. You are not asked to summon tomorrow's strength tonight. The day has not yet come, and neither has the grace that will meet it. What is promised is enough for the morning, and then another morning after that.
This is a verse to return to when you are worn down. It asks little of the reader. It only asks that you wake, and look for what is new.
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New Every Morning
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New Every Morning
In the ruins of a fallen city, one poet found a mercy that had not run out.
