I woke up this morning to the thought “His mercies are new every morning.” How often do we take this awesome truth for granted!
Today is September 11. Eight years ago this day, many lives in America changed. Families were destroyed. People died. Men and women were widowed, and children were orphaned! All because a few men were deceived into thinking the “right” thing to do was to drive some planes into the world trade centers, the pentagon, and another unknown destination.
I remember calling together a prayer meeting that night. The room was filled with people, many of whom had never attended a previous prayer meeting. We were focused on God. We knew we needed his help, his touch, his reassurance that he is still in charge, that he is still God! Through out the months and years that followed, the numbers who came to pray have dwindled to its original size. Why? Why does it take a calamity of this nature to draw us to God? I know it’s not unusual. As I’ve been reading the bible this week I’ve noticed over and over how often the Israelites, God’s chosen people would turn away from him only to fall into the hands of a cruel dictator, to lose a war or to face famine or drought. Again, they would crawl back to God and he would bring them back into his blessing, his protection, his never ending mercy.
How different are we than these people? Not very different at all, I believe! We get so caught up in the affairs of our lives. He’s pushed more and more to the bottom of our priority list. Then, we face a difficult situation,which hopefully wakes up from our spiritual slumber and turns us back to him…completely! Thank God his mercies are new every morning. Where would we be without this truth?
Lord, forgive us for our complaceny: for the many times we replace you with whatever seems important to us at the time. Help us to surrender all to you! Thank you for your neverending love, for the fact that you will always remain faithful because you cannot deny yourself.
