The Lord who never gives up on us
by Pastor Joshua Pfeiffer
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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).
I’ve been blessed to know a lot of love in my life: from my parents, my wife, my children, many other family members, friends and brothers and sisters in Christ. From these same people has come much mercy and help in times of need. Human beings cannot thrive for long, maybe even not survive for long, without love and mercy from others. Yet as wonderful as the love and mercy I have received from other human beings is, it all has this in common: it has a limit. It is finite. Sometimes, the difficulties of life bring us up against this limit as relationships break down or people move away. Ultimately, the reality of death means that no matter how strong our human love is, there will come a time when the love I rely on from another person will no longer be there in the way it is now.
Yet the Scriptures testify to us of a steadfast love that never ceases. It never ends. It has no limit. This is the steadfast love, faithfulness, grace and mercy of the Lord, fully revealed in Jesus Christ. The verse from Lamentations points us to a very simple sign of the Lord’s steadfast love built into his creation, namely, the morning. As we lay in bed and hear the first chirping of the birds, as we see the first rays of the morning sunshine peak over the horizon, as our feet once again touch the ground and we rise to discover another new day – God’s people are to see in all this a sign of the Lord’s steadfast love for us. No matter what has happened the day before, his steadfast love and mercies are new for you every single morning.
The people of old were left with this promise, not fully knowing how God would bring it about in their midst. We know that there was one definitive morning in history when the sun was rising, and the women went to the tomb to find it empty, which shows this is love even stronger than death.
Heavenly Father, I thank you that your steadfast love never ceases and that your mercies never come to an end. I thank you that they are ever-new for me, just as sure as the morning sun rises. Strengthen my love for you and others. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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