“It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” — Lamentations 3:22–23
My years as a paramedic included some of the hardest days and nights of my career. Long shifts that ran straight through the dark. Hard calls and hard circumstances, one after another.
But I remember something else. Sometimes we would be driving back from the hospital as the sun came up. After a night like that, I could look out the window and watch a new day begin.
The night before had been hard. But there was the sunrise, and God was showing me that the night was over, and that a new day with a new outlook was ahead.
Jeremiah wrote Lamentations in the rubble of Jerusalem. The city was destroyed, the people scattered, and the grief was heavy. He doesn’t pretend otherwise. Yet right in the middle he says, “This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope” (Lamentations 3:21). He did not find hope in the circumstances. He found it in what he remembered about God.
“It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.” We are still here because He is merciful. His compassions don’t run out.
Notice the word new. Yesterday’s mercy was enough for yesterday. Today has its own supply. You don’t have to carry all of it up front. Mercy comes in daily portions, like manna.
David knew this too: “weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning” (Psalm 30:5). The night is real. But it is not the end of the story. And Jeremiah lands where hope always lands: “The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him” (Lamentations 3:24).
Are you stuck in last night? Maybe a failure, a loss, or a season that has dragged on. Tomorrow morning, when the sun comes up, let it be a reminder. Say, out loud, “Great is thy faithfulness.” Then take today’s mercy, and take today’s step.
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