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It's Sunday.
No teaching today. No deep dive. Just three verses, from a book of the Bible written in the middle of enormous grief, at the end of a week about hope.
This week's theme: Hope.
Today, we rest with the prophet Jeremiah, who wrote what he wrote when there was almost nothing visible to write it from.
LAMENTATIONS
The book of Lamentations is what its name suggests. It is a lament.
Jeremiah wrote it after the fall of Jerusalem. The city had been destroyed. The temple had been burned. His people had been taken into exile. Almost everything he had known and loved was gone. He was writing from the ashes.
And in the middle of the book, in chapter three, after page after page of grief and honest complaint, he writes this.
"Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."
Read it slowly.
Notice where he is writing from. The city is gone. The temple is gone. His people are gone. And Jeremiah, in the middle of that, does not write "everything will be fine." He does not write "we will rebuild." He writes something more essential. Compassions. New every morning. Faithfulness.
He is not naming what he can see. He is naming what he knows about God.
That is the whole shape of biblical hope in one paragraph. When the visible situation is unbearable, you go underneath the visible situation, and you name what has not changed. God's love. God's compassion. God's faithfulness. New every morning. Whatever the morning brings.
Read the verse one more time.
The mercies are new every morning. Not stockpiled. Not rationed. Not saved up. New every single morning. Yesterday's mercy was for yesterday. Today's is being poured out now, fresh, for whatever today is going to hold.
This is why the Christian's hope does not have to be enormous every day. It only has to be enough for today. The morning brings mercies for the morning. The evening brings whatever the evening needs. You do not need to summon a lifetime supply of hope before breakfast. You just need enough for the day, and God has already sent it.
Rest today with that.
Whatever this week surfaced about your hope, whatever you saw about the wells you had been drawing from, whatever you named as buried, put all of it down. Today's mercy has arrived. It is enough for today. Tomorrow's will arrive tomorrow, on time, exactly as needed.
That is the covenant.
Whatever you are walking through, his compassions have not failed. They arrived again this morning, whether you noticed or not. And they will arrive tomorrow, and the morning after, and every morning until the story is finished, at which point you will see him and understand what you have been trusting the whole time.
He is faithful. That is the sentence you take into Monday.
YOUR ONE THING FOR TODAY
Read Lamentations 3:22-23 out loud once today, slowly.
Then say the last four words as your own. "Great is your faithfulness."
That is enough for today. Nothing else is required.
Father, thank you for this week. Thank you for the mercies that arrived again this morning, and for the ones already prepared for tomorrow. Anchor me in your faithfulness. Great is your faithfulness. I rest in you today. Amen.
OVER TO YOU
What is one small mercy you have noticed this morning? A word, a line, or nothing at all. Every reply welcome.
God bless you, my friend.
The LowKey Christian
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