New Every Morning
by Annie Johnson Flint
Yea, “new every morning,” though we may awake,
Our hearts with old sorrow beginning to ache;
With old work unfinished when night stayed our hand,
With new duties waiting,
unknown and unplanned;
With old care still pressing,
to fret and to vex,
With new problems rising,
our minds to perplex;
In ways long familiar,
in paths yet untrod,
Oh, new every morning the mercies of God!
His faithfulness fails not;
it meets each new day
With guidance for every new step of the way;
New grace for new trials,
new trust for old fears,
New patience for hearing the wrongs of the years,
New strength for new burdens,
new courage for old,
New faith for whatever the day may unfold;
As fresh for each need as the dew on the sod;
Oh, new every morning are the mercies of God!
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
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.
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.
Lamentations 3:18-26
Let us ‘walk in grace’ together.
May we find ‘joy in the journey and good times in the going.