Bible Reading: Lamentation 3:21-32.
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.
There are things going in people's life, many have been through tough things at beginning of life, it has led to horrible steps, that if life will play back to connect the record of their past to the present, thier future life will be very terrible.
Look at situations of things going in the world today, the news is full horrible things all over that can lead to discouragement and downcast, the happenings all around send fear and terror to the heart and veins of men. The case of suicide multiplying daily, even among teenagers, then you wonder how can one get help in such a time like this.
This was like the situation that Jeremiah found himself in his days, but he said in the midst of everything he found a way to encourage himself, and that is that he recalled to the mind what the mercy of God can do. God's mercy has done for the sons of Jacod the Israelites, and the mercy that kept them, therefore, he can hope in God's mercy also for a glorious future, that he will trust in God's mercy and compassion which never fail. He said it is by the Lord's mercy they are not consumed, he was talking in relevant to the dealings of God with the Israelites, they did many things that warrant punishment, when He brought them out of Egypt, they calls for their own destructions but God still kept them by His mercy.
In 2nd Corinthians 10:1-5, the scripture says, when God led them through the wilderness from Egypt, the kind of attitude and lifestyle they were showing, God was not pleased with many of them, yet, by mercy, God didn't destroy them he kept them.
That was why Jeremiah said, he will trust in God who shows mercies, if He could still help and provide for Israelites despite their lives, with all there errors He kept them alive. Then, what would have happened, and how much more good things God would have done for them by mercy, if they lived to please Him. I therefore, encourage you today, to put your trust in the mercies of God, and no matter what the case you are dealing with in life, the God of mercy will visit you with mercy and things will take a new turn for good in your life in Jesus name.
Prayer Points: Pray that God will show you mercy over things done in the past, and by mercy you recieved a new and a good life now and in future in Jesus name.
(This write up is from Rev Oluwayomi Eniola, PURPOSE FINDERS ASSEMBLY OF THE PRECEPTS SEEKERS CHURCH INT'L. Email: pastoryomieniola@gmail.com, Phone: +234 806 755 0234).
