It’s such a pleasure to have Autumn Pearson join as a blog writer this week and share devotional thoughts. You can learn more about her by stopping by the contributors page.
I love beginnings—a new year, a new school year, a new week (yes, I love Mondays!). Starting something fresh and clean always energizes me for the tasks ahead. But there is one beginning that used to give me pause—mornings. As someone who wakes up slowly, I did not come to a love of mornings naturally. Instead, my love grew slowly, and much like Darcy’s love for Elizabeth, “I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
While my eventual love of mornings took me by surprise, a passage of Scripture shared by a dear high school friend most likely helped it along—Lamentations 3:21-23:
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.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.
Mornings began to represent the goodness, faithfulness, and the ever-necessary mercy of God. Mornings are little beginnings that we get every twenty-four hours. We do not have to wait for a task to be done, a week to be completed, or even a year to end before we have a chance to begin again. We have hope for the current day—no need keep some from yesterday or store up for tomorrow—because we know that God’s mercies and compassions will not fail as we work through any task, week, or year.
He brings new hope with each beautiful sunrise. Living in Florida, I get to see many beautiful sunrises; and when I stop to admire each one, the Lord prompts my heart to remember His goodness, as the prophet did in the next verses of Lamentations 3:
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Each new day reminds me that Lord’s mercy extends beyond His forgiveness of our missteps (what my mind first things of when it comes to mercy) and into the offering of Himself each new day. As our portion, according to the Hebrew, God is our inheritance. God comes alongside us throughout the day. Regardless of what I may have to do today, God wants me to have Him—with all His mercy, compassion, faithfulness, and help. This double assurance helps make mornings a delight, even if it still takes me an hour to wake up.
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