Lamentations 3:22, 23 “It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”
Mercy! There are many songs that we sing in church. One of my favorite songs tells of God’s grace and mercy. Grace is unmerited favor and mercy is loving kindness. Basically, grace is God giving us what we do not deserve and mercy is God not giving us what we do deserve.
If we would be honest with ourselves, we would have to admit that we have done enough wrong in our lives to deserve to go straight to hell. Our text tells us that it is simply through God’s love (mercy) that we have not come to destruction. His mercies have no limit. The text then teaches us that God is faithful to provide us with brand new mercy every morning.
Summary:
1. We are saved by grace: I believe in holiness and believe that we should make every attempt to abstain from sin, but don’t ever make the mistake of thinking that you are ‘good enough’ to make it to heaven. We all come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23,24), but God has justified us (made us right) and redeemed us (paid the price) by His grace. We are saved by grace and not by works, so that no one would have a right to boast (Ephesians 2:8,9).
Petition: Thank God every day for His wonderful kindness showered upon us. He gave us a gift that we did not deserve and paid a price that He did not owe.
2. We are kept by mercy: Born-again believers are not sinless (1 John 1:8), but we should not practice sin. Sin should not be our way of life. Whenever we do sin, however, it is because of God’s tender mercies that we are not destroyed.
Petition: Thank God every day for His mercy. If it had not been for mercy, I would not be writing this booklet and you would not be reading it. We are here, because God loved us enough to look beyond our faults and see our need.
3. We are blessed to live our destiny out in increments: The text says that His mercies are new every morning. God has destined us and has plans to give us an expected end (Jeremiah 29:11), but He blessed us to live out our lives in increments of days.
David said in Psalm 119:24 “This is the day that the Lord has made…” He did not say that this was the week, nor month, nor year. Our lives are segmented into days and His mercies are renewed every day!
Petition: When I was a kid, we used to play marbles and when you made a mistake you would say “Slippers!” and this would mean you got to do it over – a “do over”. In real life, we cannot live yesterday over and literally get a ‘Do Over’ for a bad day, but we can ‘Start Over’ the next morning!
Could you imagine how terrible it would be to live life as ONE LONG DAY! Praise God that He has blessed us to live our lives in increments of days. We know where we are and we know where we want to head (our destiny), and God has blessed us to attempt to get there day by day!
What a wonderful benefit of our new citizenship --mercy! Yesterday ended last night! Move forward and not backward. We serve of a God of progression and not regression. The best is yet to come!
CONFESSION
Heavenly Father, I thank you for your grace and praise You for Your mercy. This is a brand new day and I walk in brand new mercy. I do not have to face this day’s issues with yesterday’s mercy. Yesterday ended last night. I look forward and not backward. This is the day that you have made and I will rejoice and be glad in it! In Jesus’ name Amen!
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