GOD'S MERCIES ARE
NEW EVERY MORNING
Ivan Pattison, Australia
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,
Each one of us are so
blessed that God the Father’s mercies are new every morning, if they weren’t
where would we be, where would I be today. Yes I am very grateful to God the
Father that His mercies are new every morning.
Should I renew my walk
with Jesus every day, yes I am sure I should. Isn’t it amazing that when I
start to write, God starts speaking to me through what I am writing, and I am
sure that as I do this in the future it is going to help me, to have a much
better walk with Jesus
Should I repent each
night, of any thought, or action that I might have committed during the day. I am certain this should be the way for me to go, so
will you follow me in committing myself to God in this way. I am sure when I do
this, then I am more unlikely to do the same thing the next day, or at least
phase out what is not like God, in my life.
Every time we repent, and
ask God to forgive us, we renew our walk with God. Old things are passed away
and all things are new, whether it be something we
recently did or said or something in the past.
It is always a good idea
to pray the Lord’s Prayer every day, and here we find ourselves praying,
forgive us our sins. The Lord’s Prayer just about covers everything we should
pray to the Father God for, and to keep our right standing with Him.
Lets look at Job; he was a
righteous man in the sight of God, yet he sacrificed each day to God, in case
his sons and daughters had sinned against God the Father.
Verse1 says, Job was
blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil, V2 and he had seven sons
and three daughters, and V3, says Job was the greatest man among all the people
of the East.
V4, Job’s sons would have feasts in their homes and they would invite their
sisters to join them.
V5, and Job being a righteous man, would sacrifice to God to include them in
his (Job’s) righteousness before God, in case his sons and daughters sinned.
We do not always
understand God’s Mercies, as His ways are higher than our ways, and because of
Job’s sons and daughters wickedness satan
was able to destroy them. Now this could bring up a lot of arguments but this
is one way to see it, and of course satan’s
attack on Job himself to see if he would fall and be destroyed
God’s Mercies were poured
out on Job, after he went through all that he went through, and Job did not
curse God, he did not get angry with God, and in God’s Mercy, He blessed Job abundantly
above all that Job could ask or think,
Job
27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it
go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Now let us look at King
David, God said David was a man after His own heart, now why would God say
this. I believe it is because, one thing, King David was a man who was
repentant, who renewed himself with God on a regular basis. David also believed
God, in what God had promised
King David even before he
was King knew his right standing with God. God knew that David would sin but
God looked on King David’s heart, the part that loved God, and not on the part
that sinned, and as we know that God can’t look on sin.
Acts
13:22b God gave testimony and said, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man
after My own heart, who will do all My will.'
King David did not only
do a part of God’s will but all of God’s will, until he sinned. It was not
until Nathan the prophet, came to King David from the Lord that David faced his
sin, and even then God’s Mercies was everlasting, though King David paid a high
price for his sin.
2
Samuel
God has put away our sins
when we repent as He did with King David, when we repent.
God’s Mercies are renewed
for us every day as they were for King David.
Love Ivan
