Every single morning, before you even open your eyes, God has already restocked heaven’s mercy on your behalf.
Lamentations 3:22-23 — Mercies New Every Morning
“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.” — Lamentations 3:22-23 (KJV)
Written From the Ruins, Not the Palace
Jeremiah did not write those words from a palace — he wrote them sitting in the ruins of Jerusalem. The city was ash. His people were in chains. And yet, against hope, he believed in hope. He looked at the sunrise and saw not just light, but covenant. Psalm 30:5 tells us “weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” There is another man in Scripture who discovered the same mercy inside a devastation far worse than Jeremiah’s ruined city. In a single day, Job lost his children, his wealth, and everything he had built his life around.
Most of us would expect his first words to be complaint, or rage at heaven. Instead, Job 1:20-21 tells us: “Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said… the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” Worship, on the very same day the news arrived. No waiting period. That is the mercy Lamentations is describing — not mercy that arrives once your situation is fixed, but mercy that is already new before you have even assessed the damage.
What This Means For You Today
Look closely at where that verse sits in Lamentations — the very middle of five chapters of raw grief over a destroyed city. The writer does not resolve his sorrow before he declares God’s faithfulness; he declares it from the middle of it. New mercy does not wait for you to finish processing your pain. It meets you mid-sentence, mid-grief, mid-ruin. Whatever claims the first minutes of your morning tends to set the tone for everything that follows.
A Practical Step
First, tonight, decide that tomorrow’s first words out of your mouth will be thanksgiving, not your phone screen. Second, if you are sitting in your own version of Job’s ash-heap right now, remember that his worship came the very same day as his loss — yours can too. Third, every morning this week, name aloud one specific mercy that is new today that was not there, in that exact form, yesterday.
Key Takeaway
You are not living on yesterday’s mercy. God renewed your supply this morning. His faithfulness is not seasonal — it is daily, whether you are watching a sunrise from a palace or standing, like Job, in the middle of the wreckage.
Today’s Prayer
Lord, thank You that Your mercies met us before we met this morning. Great is Your faithfulness, forever — in the palace and on the ash-heap alike. In Jesus’ mighty Name, Amen.
This devotional is based on Day 9 of our Gratitude Devotional Series — watch the full short-form video, New Every Morning, on YouTube for a powerful reflection to start your day. Watch today’s devotional video on YouTube →