His Compassions Never Fail, They Are New Every Morning. Great Is Your Faithfulness

LAMENTATIONS 3:21-23

“This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.”

‭‭Lamentations‬ ‭3:21-23‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

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Jeremiah had experienced God’s faithfulness; he knew that punishment followed disobedience.

But he had a ray of hope in all the sin and sorrow surrounding him.

“The endless faithful love of God.”

He had God’s promise of a future restoration and blessing, and Jeremiah knew with certainty, that God regardless of his faults and failures, would keep that promise. 

The faithful love of God never ends, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

‭‭John‬ ‭3:16‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

We are all sinners in need of a Saviour.

My beloved, we, in our weakness, continue to commit acts of sin daily without even knowing it.

Though it seems we all started with a clean slate, it becomes soiled daily by our sin.

But because Christ paid our debt of sin, past, present, and future, on a cross, whether it was a minor mistake, or a deliberate sinful action, when we come to Christ in repentance, He is faithful to forgive and wipe the slate clean.

It’s like Jesus takes out all the pages from our record book, tears them up and destroys them, and then replaces them with a copy of His spotless record.

Therefore, “Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning.

Does that mean we can continue in sin? Of course not, we must repent; that is to turn from our old sinful ways toward God and to the best of our abilities, sin no more. The truth is, as mature Christians, repentance should not be because we deliberately sinned, but rather, just in case we have made a mistake.

The truth is, we cannot walk in our own righteousness, for we have none, we can do nothing good in our own abilities and strength for the flesh is determined to satisfy its lust. Furthermore, we cannot work for our salvation, for our sin closed that door.

But Jesus said, ““If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.”

‭‭John‬ ‭14‬:‭15‬-‭18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

My beloved, not only has Jesus paid your debt of sin, but He sent His Holy Spirit to help and guide you all the way.

“I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.”

‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5‬:‭16‬-‭26‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

My beloved, Jesus covered it all, but “Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭53‬:‭1‬-‭5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

But if we are to walk in the Spirit, we must first know Him and receive Him, for “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.”

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭1‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Therefore, take heed of Peters words, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.””

‭‭Acts‬ ‭2‬:‭38‬-‭39‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.