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Show THE MERCIES OF GOD "It is of the Lord's mercies that we are consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. (Lamentations not " 3: 22-23) singing the blues in darkness. They are trapped in their own despair. What has happened The people of God have been to them caused them to wonder if there is God and if there is where is He in times like these. But this text begins to shine light. The darkness breaks up and the clouds begin to disperse and the sky the starts to clear up. Their former melancholy is being altered and the began broken hearted beganto continence of those who mourned to change. The 1 hope. Since we know God, we have something good going for us. We have see access to the mercies of God, to His unfailing compassions. As bad as things are, there is hope in God. Here is the good news: HIt is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail hopelessness and despair, we would give in and sit down were it not." In our not for the mercies that God shows. Mere is another way of saying compassion. It is the showing of pity for misery of others, the relieving of their suffering, the response to their needs, to be favorable toward another. Things have been bad, but might have been the worse if it God. In were fact, not for the mercies of we might have been 2 completely of God failed. Like Moses we are compassions burning bush, consumed if the being burned but are not consumed. Like the furnace of the three Daniel, it is heated seven times hotter and hot enough to consume Hebrew boys in those who threw them in but not as so much the smell of smoke for the children of God. We are consumed as refined trash. by the fire but not It is not just the mercy of God but the plural mercies of God. His mercies are so abundant that they are inexhaustible fountains of mercies. Malachi 3: 6 sums it up: "For 1 the Lord, 1 change not; therefore ye sons ofJacob are not consumed. am " Praise His God. Not Holy Name for the mercies of only does the mercies 3 and compassion of God not fail, mercies are new but God's like the dew and the sunrise of every morning and the faithfulness of God is great. "They new every morning: great is are thy faithfulness." Just as the sun set yesterday, it rises afresh above the horizons every morning. You can count on it. Weare not dealt with according to our sins and what according to we deserve, but God's abundant and inexhaustible mercies. We sometimes think God has shut the windows of longer pouring blessings. But when the morning heaven and is not out comes, breath and pep in our step. Like the rivers, His mercies keep flowing down toward us. We see there is a freshness in evidence each our morning 4 of the compassion and goodness of God. Although we have broken the covenant between us and God, God keeps giving us another chance. "His goodness and mercy endureth forever. (Psalm 23: 5) " God is indeed faithful and His mercies . every mornmg. Jesus explained His mercy in .I had Matthew 23: 37. He said, are new " .. gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings "He was foreshadowing his coming and death on the cross to save a dying world. "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. "It is of the Lord's mercies that we ... " are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 5 " |
