New Every Morning
A line from Lamentations speaks to anyone who has woken up tired and begun again anyway.
The book of Lamentations is a set of poems written in grief, after the fall of Jerusalem. It does not look away from loss. That is what makes its most famous lines surprising.
"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 the word "morning." The writer is not promising that trouble ends. He is saying that mercy arrives on a schedule, daily, like bread. You do not have to store up enough to last a year. You need enough for today.
This is a quiet claim, and a steadying one. Faithfulness here is not a feeling the writer summons. It is something he receives, again, after a hard night.
If you are tired as you read this, the verse does not ask you to be less tired. It asks you to look for the morning's small supply, and to trust that it will be there tomorrow as well.
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