This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24.
We
have life so good. We have enough food on hand to last probably a month—while
people even here in the Tri-Cities are starving…and cold on this somewhat
chilly spring day. Yet we wake up and sit around in our cozy warm home looking
out the windows at complaining that we will have to drive to the gym on busy
roads. Hmmm. God’s mercy—compassion, kindness, forgiveness, blessing—is new
every morning. New mercy every morning means that He starts with a fresh slate
every day. He doesn’t focus and recall the sin of yesterday. Additionally, He
has provided and taken care of us so well. Be thankful.
Remember how Jesus got up regularly
early in the morning to go talk to His Father. To pray. What a good example for
us. Jesus in the Old Testament provided mercy—compassion and forgiveness—every morning.
Where did he get that mercy but from the Father? How often did He talk to the
Father—probably constantly, like we should pray without ceasing, but certainly
regularly every morning. I think that morning is the best time to pray. Do it
before the day gets too busy with other responsibilities, interests, and demands
that crowd into your schedule and crowd out your intentions. I speak for
myself. It happens. I get up and intend to spend some quality time with the
Lord…and on my way to my desk I get sidetracked by something that seems to need
my urgent attention. And away goes the hour and then the day. Do you have days
like that? I was recently reminded that it isn’t necessarily the quantity of
time spent with the Lord, but the quality. God’s love for us never ends. Does
our love for Him have boundaries or borders—end points? Morning, noon, or
nighttime. The time for being with the LORD, gaining knowledge of Him and
showing our love for Him is our choice.
The
faithful love of the LORD never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is His
faithfulness; His mercies begin afresh each morning. Lamentations 3:22-23
Before
daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place to
pray. Mark
1:35
Prayer
– Lord, Thank You for Your mercy—undeserved as it is. I treasure and appreciate
all that You have done and provided for me, my family, friends and neighbors.
Please continue in Your faithfulness to us. May Your mercies never cease.
Meditate.
Consider God’s mercy in scripture. Read God’s word and listen to what He is
saying.
Verses
of Salvation ~ All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by
his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ
from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, and we have a priceless
inheritance--an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled,
beyond the reach of change and decay. And through your faith, God is protecting
you by his power until you receive this salvation, which is ready to be
revealed on the last day for all to see. 1 Peter 1:3-5
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