THE MERCY OF GOD RENEWS EVERY MORNING

"Thanks be to the great love of the Lord, that we are not consumed, for his mercies are inexhaustible: they are renewed every morning: great is thy faithfulness" (Lamentations 3: 22-23).

Have you had a bad time? For know that you are not the first person to go through a difficult situation, nor will it be the last. Once, things were so bad in Israel that Jeremiah called one of the Bible books he wrote about "Lamentations." In his reports, Jeremiah described God's people as a "widow" and a "slave," and said, "He weeps bitterly at night, tears roll down his face. they have betrayed her: they have become their enemies "(Lamentations 1: 2).

And as the Book of Lamentations goes from verse to verse, things continue to go from bad to worse, for the people of God were reaping the fruits of the bad seeds they had planted in the past. Then, suddenly, when things could not get any worse, Jeremiah wrote, "Thanks be to the great love of the Lord, we are not consumed, for his mercies are inexhaustible: they renew themselves every morning: great is thy faithfulness."

Is not that wonderful? In a world where only the strongest survive, being able to count on God's love, faithfulness and compassion every day is something spectacular. The dictionary defines compassion as "a pious feeling for the tragedy of the other, accompanied by the desire to diminish their pain, spiritual participation in the unhappiness of others that leads to the voluntary impulse of tenderness with the sufferer."

Then, every day when you wake up, glorify God in the following way: "Lord, thank you for His mercies that are renewed every morning. I know that despite my failures, the Lord pities me and wants to free me more and more of sin and pain. "

Pr. Antônio Júnior