Meditation

In yesterday's verses, the psalmist commits to remembering the state of his sin and the state of his soul. Whereas in today's verses, he commits to remembering God's faithfulness through five different reassurances;

• His mercy is new every morning.

• His mercy is completely sufficient.

• His mercy will find all who seek him.

• His mercy will reward the patient.

• The trials of youth will bear up the adult.

His daily mercies, provision, goodness, and purpose in trials assure us all that His faithfulness endures, regardless of circumstances or time or place.

He is faithful in every-thing and in every-time to every-one whose hope is in Him.

Today's text is Lamentations 3:23-27

The verses to copy today are in black. Yesterday's verses are in grey for context and clarity.

Lamentations 3

¹⁹ I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.
​²⁰ I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.
​²¹ Yet this I call to mind​
and therefore I have hope:

²² Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.

²³ They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
​²⁴ I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.”

²⁵ The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
​²⁶ it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
​²⁷ It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is young.​

Encouragement

"The worldling blesses God while he gives him plenty, but the Christian blesses him when he smites him: he believes him to be too wise to err and too good to be unkind; he trusts him where he cannot trace him, looks up to him in the darkest hour, and believes that all is well."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The Happy Christian

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Andy

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