God is Faithful
Lamentations 3:22-24 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” (NRSV)
When life takes a turn for the worse, often it’s hard to make sense of it all. And even more difficult is the fact that it’s at that point that we typically lose sight of who God is and what He’s up to.
Sometimes life is just a mess. Not always because we messed it up, although that happens too, but because things have just taken a turn for the worse and that’s it. That’s where we find ourselves. I don’t care who you are, how super-spiritual you might be, how other people might look at you and think, “Boy that one there, they have it all together with God, don’t they?”
Sometimes life is just a crock! That’s it. Nothing you can do about it. You believed in God for good, but all you can see around you is devastation.
I love the old song that goes like this:
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
His mercies never come to an end,
They’re new every morning, new every morning
Great is your faithfulness O Lord
Great is your faithfulness.
Do you know it? It’s an awesome song. It comes straight out of Lamentations 3:22-24. The writer was looking around, just after Jerusalem has been destroyed and razed to the ground by the Babylonians. God’s city was gone. God’s chosen people had gone. The devastation was complete. The loss and pain in his heart was incalculable. And in the middle of all that, he writes, because deep, deep down he knows, that:
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
His mercies never come to an end,
They’re new every morning, new every morning
Great is your faithfulness O Lord
Great is your faithfulness.
That is always true. It never, ever, ever changes, despite all the evidence you may see to the contrary.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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Teresa Barthol
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