Great is Thy Faithfulness

God is faithful! There is no way we can deny that! As the verse above says, they are NEW EVERY MORNING! There would be no way to completely count all of the blessing of faithfulness our Lord gives us daily, but the Lord laid these three things on my heart.

First, every morning, the Lord gives us a FRESH START. Everyday He wakes us up and we still have the breath of life in us. He still has us here to work for Him and fulfill His purpose for our lives. Despite what the day before brought into our lives or what good or bad we did, the rising of the sun brings a new day to start over for Him! "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." Lamentations 3:21-23. If the day before was full of failures, sins, and troubles all the way around, we can ask for forgiveness. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness." I John 1:19. "As far as the east if from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us." Psalms 103:12. We can KNOW that we can have our sins forgiven and that the Lord will NOT HOLD THEM OVER OUR HEADS! When our sins are forgiven, they are GONE FOREVER! If the Lord doesn't remember them, we don't need to either. Sure this is easier said than done, but we can keep our minds stayed on the truth of His forgiveness and that we are given a NEW OPPORTUNITY DAILY to start over and serve HIM! "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended; but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before." Phillipians 3:13. He has a "mulitude of mercies" for our "multitude of transgressions" Psalms 5:7 & 10. 

Secondly, the Lord FREELY PROVIDES for our daily needs! "Blessed be the Lord, who DAILY loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah." Psalms 68:19. The Lord doesn't give us blessings to ration and hope we will have "just enough" to make it through. No! He gives us A LOAD DAILY!! This is our Portion to meet our need, and keep us looking to Him everyday! Just as the Lord provided the physical need of food to the Israelites with fresh manna DAILY from heaven, He is STILL doing the same thing for us! No, we don't have a grocery basket from heaven dropped on our front door every morning, but the Lord is the one that gives us the means to be able to get our physical supplies, or either uses other people to help with providing our needs. He also gives us our spiritual food daily. He is our PORTION! Psalms 16:5 says, "The Lord IS THE PORTION of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot." "Maintaining our lot" speaks again of daily provision! Just as the Lord provided for the multitudes in the wilderness with the 5 loaves of bread and two fish, THE BREAD OF LIFE is still giving us our physical and spiritual daily bread! "Give us THIS DAY our daily bread." Luke 6:11. 

Lastly, the Lord is faithful to us daily by being the dearest FRIEND we can ever have! Just as Adam, Abraham, and Enoch walked with the Lord daily, so can we! We can feed on His Word, listen to that still small Voice that speaks to us through it, and talk with our High Priest! No matter how hard our day is, what the storm may be, or even if it seems He is no where to be found, HE IS STILL RIGHT THERE BESIDE us! "..I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." Hebrews 13:5. "...there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." Proverbs 18:24. Daily call upon Him for help. Walk with Him to know the way you need to go! "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: FOR THOU ART WITH ME; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." Psalms 23:4. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Psalms 23:6. He is GOODNESS AND MERCY and will be there with us all the days of our life! What a blessing to be able to call the God of heaven our friend!

Great is thy faithfulness! Great are His mercies and compassions daily! Every morning He gives us a Fresh Start, Freely Provides, and is the dearest Friend we have ever had! "This is the DAY which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it!" Psalm 118:24.