New Every Morning

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 348, 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.

Just let that sit for a moment.

You need to know where Jeremiah was when he wrote those words. He wasn't on a mountaintop. He wasn't in a season of triumph. He was sitting in the rubble of Jerusalem — the city leveled, the temple ash, the people gone. It was the lowest point a man could reach. And it is there, in the very heart of that grief, that he lifts his eyes and sees something the destruction could not touch: the mercy of God.

That tells us something that matters deeply. The deepest faith is not born in the easy days. It is born in the days that nearly break us.

And what does Jeremiah see from that valley? He sees the *hesed* of God — that Hebrew word we translate as steadfast love, as mercy, but which is bigger than any single word can hold. It is loyal love. Covenant love. The kind of love that does not depend on your performance, does not tally your failures, does not withdraw when you fall short. And we all fall short. But this love stays. It is the anchor that holds the soul when everything else is shifting.

And the mercies — hear what the text says — never come to an end. There is no daily quota. There is no limit you can reach where you hear: "Sorry, you've used yours up for today." No matter how many times you have come back to God this week, this month, this year — this morning the supply is as full as it has ever been. There is no bottom to that well. None.

And they are new. Every morning. Not yesterday's leftovers warmed over. Fresh grace — just drawn from the hand of God, prepared specifically for this day, for what you're walking into today, for the hard conversation, the heavy decision, the exhaustion you haven't told anyone about yet. The sun rising right now is the Creator's signature on a promise: you have everything you need for this day.

And then comes that final line — and it is a confession, a declaration that rises up out of the ruins: great is your faithfulness. In Hebrew, faithfulness is *emunah* — firmness, constancy. Something you can lean the full weight of your life against and it will not give way. Christ is the highest proof of that faithfulness. He came. He fulfilled every promise made. He died and he rose again. What God has promised, God performs — without exception, without a delay that does not have purpose.

So today, before breakfast, before the phone, before the day pulls you under — stop. Two minutes. Place your open hands in your lap, palms up, in a posture of receiving. And tell God out loud — not in your head, out loud — one thing for which you need his mercy today. Just one. Then give thanks. Because it is already being delivered. You don't have to beg — you only have to receive.

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