"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end, they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."
Lamentations 3:22-23
New mercies have all but smooshed my grateful heart into a tiny mush of awe and wonder every morning this week. I've been reminded of these new mercies via the ridiculous sunrises God has decided to make for us recently.
And I'm certainly not in the business of rating sunrises, but this photo isn't even close to expressing the most enrapturing moments of today's new dawn. I'm pretty sure those moments passed as I was trying to peel my face off the window pane so I could grab my phone and snap some photos.
The deal with these new mercies is that He gives them to us fresh every morning, like a new steaming pot of coffee. And for a girl who went to bed pretty beat and weary a few nights this week, waking up to hot coffee and the Lord proclaiming "I'M GIVING YOU NEW MERCIES TODAY!" is exactly to what I needed. He's gracious to remind me that in Christ, I'm made new every day. He's so good to send gorgeous reminders (all the time) that his continuous new mercies are waves of freedom to each soul in Him. And He deeply desires to give new mercies to those souls who don't know Him, too.
For the heart that is weary, crushed, discouraged, off-kilter, traveling down the wrong path, lost, hurting, breaking, broken, uninspired, or even perfectly a-okay, the new mercies that our gracious Father gives to us are defibrillators. They wake us up from near-death to freedom, and strike away yesterday's lingering residue of awkward heartbeats. What we went to sleep still dealing with or fretting over or dreading to face again in the morning, He's washed away in the glory of a brand new dawn. Brand new mercies. Electric and exciting liberators. We get to be revived every. new. day. YAY GOD.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."
2 Corinthians 5:17
