New Every Morning

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 336, 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, verses 22 and 23.

Let those words land for a moment. Because they did not come from an easy place.

Jeremiah was not sitting in comfort when he wrote this. He was sitting in rubble. Jerusalem had been leveled. The temple, torn down stone by stone. The people, marched off into exile. And in the middle of that devastation — in the ash, in the grief, in the silence broken only by weeping — a man who had lost everything still lifted his voice and said: the steadfast love of the LORD never ceases.

That is not naive optimism. That is faith forged in fire.

And that is precisely why these words carry such weight today — because they were born from someone who had every reason to give up, and did not give up.

Look at what he is saying. The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases. Never. It does not shrink when you fail. It does not grow cold as the years go by. It does not tire of you on the days when you have grown tired of yourself. It is a love that knows no interruption — and that is not a feeling, it is a reality more solid than anything you are up against right now.

And his mercies — notice that word is plural. Not one mercy. Mercies. God does not have a dwindling reserve of compassion that runs lower each time you come to Him with a need. Every burden you are carrying today meets a fresh, specific, exact supply from Him. He is not running out. He has never run out.

And then comes the part that should change the way you wake up every single morning. They are new every morning. Every morning you open your eyes, God's mercies have already arrived before you did. Before the alarm, before the coffee, before you remember everything pressing down on you — this morning's mercies are already here. Was yesterday too heavy? Today resets. Not because you earned it. Not because you deserve a clean slate. But because that is who He is. It is His nature.

And Jeremiah closes with this — great is your faithfulness. That is not an empty praise phrase. That is the conclusion of a man who lost everything and still found God standing when the dust settled. And we who live on the other side of the cross know it even more fully: Christ is the ultimate proof of that faithfulness. He went all the way to death — and came back. If God was faithful in that moment, He will be faithful in yours.

So today, before breakfast, stop. Two minutes of quiet. And say it out loud — say it with intention, not as a ritual: Lord, I receive your new mercies for today. Let that declaration set the tone for everything that follows. Not the feeling you wake up with. What you declare about who God is.

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