“The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.”
Lamentations 3:22–23 NLT
I’m in my car and turning onto the interstate that takes me over the lake. I like the way the water sparkles — like a mirror, always reflecting the light of the good sun.
As the water sparkles, I think about something that younger me never realized. Right here in my car, with nothing mystical or magnificent happening, I feel God and His presence. I think of the passage of Scripture that carried me through my weary, teenage years: the steadfast love of God never stops, and His mercies are new every morning.
Long gone are my adolescent years when I’d cry myself to sleep, unsure of God’s mercy and overwhelmed with the weight of life. Desperate to believe that God’s mercy was really for me, I’d cry my heart out just before sleep so many nights, only to wake up puffy-eyed and hoping the newness that I felt from waking to a new day was God’s way of waking me to new mercies.
Looking back, I now see that God’s mercy didn’t just come to me every morning; it also carried me through every night and every minute of every day. And if I held on to Him then, I can hold on to Him this minute, never needing to hold out for the morning to wash me anew. I can recall His mercies to my mind now, right here in this car driving over the lake that sparkles with the light of the good sun.
Wherever you are today, God’s mercies are available to you. Whether you’re raging over the injustices in your life or in the world, or you’re weary from the everyday mundane. Whether you cry yourself to sleep at night or bemoan when morning comes, you can count on God’s new mercies to meet you.
His mercies are new every minute, every millisecond, stretching wide and reaching deep to cover us for any reason . . . at any time, in any place. You can step into each new day knowing God’s love meets you and carries you.
by Rachel Marie Kang, as published in 100 Days of Strength in Any Struggle
100 Days of Strength in Any Struggle will take you on a journey of learning to see God clearer and to know Him deeper in the middle of your struggles. As you experience pain, move through daily challenges, or get bogged down by anxieties big or small, you’ll learn to find Him right in the middle of it, ready to strengthen you and give you rest.
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Dear (in) courage…………..I love this devotion and remember it in your book. I am going through it for the 3rd time and it just gets me to understand situations more than the last time I went through it. I really rely on this book as I have been living in a dark season for 5 years now. Today is my 78th birthday and I thanked God this morning for creating me in my mother’s womb. My parents were the best. When I was 5 years old I started in Sunday school and just continued year after year until I got to confirmation age. The minister did the teaching when we would get to this point and we learned so much more about our deep faith. When we made it to the actual confirmation, we all were so happy and then the BIG day when we were served with our first Holy Communion. We all cried after church that day as we now really felt like we were members of the church and now could do some things to help them if they thought we could do the task. No cards or calls from my husband, my son and daughter- in- law as they think because I BELIEVE, my son wrote, You belong in a mental institution and some even worse things that I can’t even write to you. The absolute worse thing is that they will not let me see or even talk to my 1 grandchild who was 11 the last time I saw him until now when he turns 15 in 2 weeks. This has broken my heart day after day; however, today on my Birthday I still hope even more that somehow I will be able to reconnect to him. My son, no. The Serenity Prayer says you need to have the Serenity to accept the things you cannot change and I know he will never come back again and call me his Mother. He was brought up in the church, but he did not like it, but I did not realize that he did not believe. Somehow the devil grabbed a hold on him and has not left go. So I thank you for the lovely words today and just say there is so much more to the story, but today, I don’t want to think about it. Love to all of you women from (in)courage as you have helped me more than I can stay to keep praying, have hope and just teaching me so many things. Happy Sunday!!……..Betsy Basile
Happy birthday Betsy!
Happy birthday, Betsy! I hope there is something delightful tucked away in today for you, even if it is tiny. 🙂
Happy birthday Betsy beautiful!
September is a lovely time to celebrate a birthday. I turned 70 on the 11 th.