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JULY 8
GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS

Scripture:  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.”

  This passage talks about four things that I would like to bring to your attention today. First of all there is hope; then there is the Lord’s mercies; also His compassions; and last of all, His faithfulness. Let’s look at the word hope.  It means “to trust in with confident expectation of good.”  It is not something we think may happen, but rather something we believe in that has hard evidence to back up the reality of it happening.  Christian hope is different from worldly hope in that worldly hope is based on our trusting that something might happen.  Christian hope is built on the truth of the Word of God, where He promised that it would happen.  For the believer, Christ is our hope!  
    Then there’s the Lord’s mercies.  Mercy means “that benevolence, mildness or tenderness of heart which disposes a person to overlook injuries, or to treat an offender better than he deserves”.  He said it is because of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed.  He does not gives us what we deserve, He gives us something better.  
     Then there is his compassions.  Compassion is “a suffering with another or painful sympathy”.  Our Lord has suffered for us and He suffers with us and the passage tells us that those compassions fail not.  He will never quit feeling the way He does for you.  He will never quit loving you and providing for you every day.  
    Then last of all there is the word “faithfulness”.  Faithfulness means “habitual observance of truth, or habitual truth”.  His faithfulness is described as being great.  Greatly the Lord is faithful to tell the truth, to teach the truth and to be the truth. He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.  He said that His Word is truth.