FAITHFUL. Day 18 of Lent. Every New Morning.
“This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. The LORD’S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness” Lamentations 3:22
“Every new morning is a new beginning of our life. Every day is a completed whole.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “God created day and night so that we might not wander boundlessly, but already in the morning may see the goal of the evening before us. As the old sun rises every day, so the eternal mercies of God are new every morning. To grasp the old faithfulness of God anew every morning, to be able—in the middle of life—to begin a new life with God daily, that is the gift that God gives with every new morning…”
Reflecting on the words found in Lamentations 3, Bonhoeffer affirms that “every new day is a gift from a faithful God and that a part of this ongoing gift is God’s love & compassion.” God loves us. This is something each of us should know and witness in affirmation as we begin a new day, “I am loved by a faithful God.”
Every sunrise is a song to me. Great is Thy faithfulness. The dawn is a sign, a memo that reminds us we have another chance “to begin a new life with God” in a new day. Apparently, in God’s created order new beginnings are called for every single day, not just at the beginning of each New Year. I am so thankful for new mercies.
“God is faithful, who is always true to his promises: whatever He has said, He will do it; He will never suffer his faithfulness to fail; and since He has made so many promises concerning the establishment of his people, and their perseverance to grace, they may assure themselves of them.” Gill’s Exposition
How faithful are you to affirming God’s promises to yourself each day?
What promises of God do you ‘know’ and claim today?
The next sunrise will you count it a new beginning of our life and Live Loved?
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. Deut 7:9
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