About three weeks ago I pulled out my journal and started to write. I didn't write much. It was a day when I was tired and not feeling too well. As it turns out the notes I made were written on the wrong side of the page and upside down. As I was looking for the ribbon marker attached at the top to mark my page and close the book, I had to giggle. I had totally flipped! Perhaps in more ways than one.
Some days life is like that. We have big plans, as I did for that day, but we wake up feeling bad or something unplanned crops up and we find things all topsy-turvy. To be honest, I spend a lot of days that way, just doing what has to be done and leaving all my well thought out plans for another day.
Here's the thing. The next day when I wrote in my journal, I started at the correct spot on the correct page at the correct top. It was my tomorrow - my new day. We say it so much I fear it has or might become cliché, but it is so beautifully true. His (God's) mercies are new every morning! Let's remind ourselves of the entire verse:
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22-23) As Matthew Henry stated, "Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that they are not worse."
Can I get an AMEN?!?!
So, friend, if your world is upside down to the point you are writing on the wrong page on the wrong side at the wrong top, remind yourself as the prophet did so many years ago and never lose hope, God's love is faithful and true. No matter how bad things get, His love will NEVER end. Oh, and that word mercy - well it simply means compassion, tender love. God loves you...today...and tomorrow! If no one else does, HE cares. Great is his faithfulness!
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