"New"

January 2, 2017

“New…”

Blessings folk!

A new beginning.
A new year.
A new day.

There may have been difficult days of late.
There will be difficult days ahead…the Word tells us.

Hear the Word of the Lord.
We know one of these verses well.
But do we know the context?

Remember this…

Lam 3:19-23

Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
the wormwood and the gall!

My soul continually remembers it
and is bowed down within me.

But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;

they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.


What do we call to mind?
The difficulties of the past?
The challenges?
The disappointments?
The “what abouts?”

Where is our hope?
If our hope is in anything other than the Most High, we will fail.

Here is what we are to call to mind.
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.
The mercies of the Lord never come to an end.
His love and mercy is new every morning.
His faithfulness is great.

Every day is a new day in the Lord.
His love.
His mercy.
His faithfulness.
In this we rejoice.
In this we hope.
In this we live.