New Every Morning
Lamentations sets grief and hope in the same breath, and tells the tired reader where to look first.
"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 come from Lamentations 3:22-23.
The book around them is honest about ruin. It was written after a city fell, and it does not rush past the loss. That is what makes the turn here worth noticing. The writer does not deny the night. He waits through it, and names what the morning brings.
Mercy that is new every morning is not a reward for sleeping well. It arrives before we have done anything. It is there when the day is unwelcome, when the list is long, when yesterday went badly.
Read the sentence slowly. The love is great. The compassions do not fail. They are new today, and will be new tomorrow. Faithfulness is the quiet claim underneath it all: God is the same when we are not.
If you are tired this morning, begin there. Not with a plan, but with a gift already given.
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