New Every Morning

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 254, New Every Morning.

"The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." Lamentations 3:22-23.

Lamentations is, as its name says, a book of lament. It's Jeremiah's weeping over the destruction of Jerusalem — the city in ruins, the temple destroyed, the people exiled, suffering the consequences of years of rebellion against God. It's one of the most painful texts in all of Scripture.

And it's right in the middle of this book of pain, in its most central chapter, that we find these words that have become one of the most beloved verses in all of Scripture. It's no accident that the Bible's brightest hope is planted in the middle of its most intense suffering. It's there, in the pain, that God's faithfulness shines brightest.

"The steadfast love of the LORD... never ceases." Notice the word: never ceases. Even when everything around seemed to be crumbling, God's loyal love remained standing. He hadn't left along with the destroyed temple. He hadn't abandoned His people along with the ruined city.

And then comes that beautiful phrase: "they are new every morning." God's mercies aren't a limited stockpile that runs down as we use it. They're like the manna in the wilderness — fresh, new, sufficient for each day, with no need to store up reserves for tomorrow because tomorrow brings another full portion.

That changes everything, doesn't it? Because sometimes we live in fear that God's grace is going to run out — as if every mistake of ours drains a little more from that reservoir of mercy, until one day it's gone for good. But that's not how it works. God's mercy isn't finite. It renews. Every morning, again.

And Jeremiah concludes with a statement that, looking at the context, is almost shocking: "great is your faithfulness." In the middle of the ruins, he doesn't say "great is my pain" — though the pain was real, and he never hides it anywhere in the book. He chooses to declare God's faithfulness as the greater truth, the truth that holds up all the others.

I want to ask you, gently: in what area of your life have you been living as if God's mercy had a limit, as if you'd already used up too much of it? I want to remind you today that it renews. Tomorrow morning, there will be more. And the day after, still more.

So today, before you sleep, I want to invite you to a simple exercise: stop and thank God for one specific mercy from today — something that only happened because He is faithful. And sleep knowing that tomorrow, early in the morning, there will be more.

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.