New Every Morning...

Good Morning,

Lamentations 3:22-23 (NASV)
The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.

Hallelujah! Great IS your faithfulness, oh God! Thank You for Your loving kindness which never ends. Thank you my Lord, my God, for your presence and goodness in my life, new every morning.

Now, that's how I should start EVERY day that God gives me. Good idea, don't you think? Recently the Lord reminded me that I should begin each day in prayer and thanksgiving to Him. I even sent out just such a suggestion to everyone that we ALL begin our days, every day, asking for God to be with us and fill us up for that day. Today I think God is taking a slightly different tack in trying to get His message across to me...and, in turn, to you.

Today we are reminded that God begins each day we live with His loving kindness and compassion for us. He reminds us through these short verses that His love for us and His compassion toward us is new every single morning we awaken. What an awesome and amazing thought that is. Sometimes...even often for many...we have a difficult time understanding that God thinks about us, each of us individually. It's hard to comprehend that, because He is God, He is able to have you and I and every one of His children in His mind and heart. It's even more difficult to get into our heads that He can do this every morning; that His love and mercy is NEW every morning. And, what's almost impossible to get our human minds around is the fact that yesterday, our failures and sins and shortcomings, don't matter to Him. Because, you see, all of His love and all of His faithfulness and all of His compassion are new every day.

Doesn't it seem a pretty good trade off with God that we should have HIM in our hearts and minds every morning as well? I know that this message might be a bit redundant so closely following a similar message so recently sent. But, you know what? I find that God is kind of like that sometime, don't you? I mean, don't we all sort of get the same word from Him about various things again and again...until we finally get it? Until we finally understand what He's telling us? Until we are finally obedient to His command in our life? Well, I kind of think that's what He's doing today...at least with me. Maybe with you, as well.

I'm going to do better. I almost said, "I'm going to TRY to do better." You know what I've learned about "trying" almost anything? That's exactly what I'll do. Try. I won't actually DO whatever it is that I've said I'll try. I'll just try. So, I think it's a good thing for me to get that "try" thing put away and just get to the "do" part. Yes, that would be a very good thing!

Maybe that's a good thought for us all? You think?

Love, peace, and blessings,

David