New Every Morning
From poems grieving a fallen city comes a word that mercy had outlasted the disaster.
The Book of Lamentations is a set of poems grieving the destruction of Jerusalem. They look on the worst a city can suffer. And yet, at the center of the grief, come these words:
"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." (Lamentations 3:22-23)
Notice where the hope sits. Not in a change of circumstances. The ruins are still ruins. The hope sits in a mercy that does not run out.
"New every morning" is worth holding onto. Compassion, here, is not a fixed amount slowly spent. It arrives fresh with each day, like bread you cannot store but are given again.
If you are tired this morning, you do not need yesterday's supply. Today has its own. The faithfulness is not yours to summon; it is simply there, already, before you wake.
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