New Every Morning (revisited)

It seems that night time is the most difficult to handle for most people who are lonely, depressed, angry, or needy. One of the reasons night time is so difficult is that we so desire for resolve…for needs to be met, for the relationship to be restored, or the hurt to go away. In Lamentations 3, God tells us that it is because of his mercies that we are not consumed and his compassion is new every morning. Now most of you have heard that it is his mercy that is new every morning, but that is not how the text reads. It is because of God’s mercies that we are able to wake up in the morning. So if you are breathing in the morning, then you experienced God’s mercies during the night. In the morning, we get to experience his incredible compassion. In the Hebrew language, the word compassion means soft, gentle, a mother’s womb. What a beautiful word! Each morning when we awake, we can experience God’s compassion. And the text goes on to say, “Great is his faithfulness.” And continues with, “The Lord is my portion..therefore I will hope in him. The Lord is good to them who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.”

The problem is waiting…we so want it now…we think we cannot make it through another day, or another night…but we can…all we need to do is go to sleep…and in the morning we will experience our Father’s compassion that will restore and renew our hope. For those who cannot fall asleep easily, i recommend reading yourself to sleep, listening to soft gentle Christian music.