The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies
never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your
faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 (ESV)
Many mornings I sit on my back porch and watch as the sun
begins to light the night sky. I wait and watch with wonder His miracle of
precision; the Earth rotating bringing the light of the sun on the morning
horizon. He is faithful in every way, and I contemplate another new day that
the Lord has made and placed in time as a granted favor. I see the clean slate before me that I have
not yet tarnished or marred. I also am aware of the gravity of my
responsibility to actions I perform each second, minute, hour that will become
my biography of tomorrow.
I stand amazed in the Lord’s love and His continual mercies
that are new every day. He has freely handed me a Deed of Full Reconveyance for
which I am unworthy. My sin debt has been fully paid and the lien removed. I
will stand before God blamelessly made Holy by the blood of Jesus Christ. So
not only does He give me a clean-slated day, but also a clean-slated heart. It
is nothing I have done, but what He has done for me out of His steadfast love.
For this reason, each new day I want to give my gift of full
devotion as a sacrifice of praise before His alter. I want to be an example of
love and adoration to Him. I want my witness to be a beam of His light,
piercing though the darkness of pain in this world. I want to be His obedient
laborer. I want to shower others with the same measure of mercy He has shown to
me. I want to weigh my words, speak His truth and tell His story.
By the grace of God, I start this new day, this new year,
this new journey asking for His help to be a sweet-pleasing-aroma, fully-immersed,
captivated-in-His-love, servant. I ask that He will help me not leave too many scars
on the 365 days He affords me every year. I will honor and cherish His gift of each
clean-slated new day. Great is His faithfulness!
Dear God,
Help me to use each new day for your glory.
Amen
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