“His compassions fail not. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness.” (Lamentations 3:22-23)
There’s a moment in almost every case I’ve worked where the facts look predictable, and then something happens that no one expected. It’s much like life.
God is teaching me to stop assuming I know how the story ends when all I can see is what I THINK will be written on today’s page.
Maybe your page is chasing a toddler who woke up four times last night. Maybe it’s a stack of medical textbooks so tall you can’t remember what sleep felt like before this semester. Maybe it’s a second job you clock into after the first one ends—working to keep the lights on. Maybe it’s a relationship where you’re constantly walking on eggshells, unsure which version of the other person you’ll get today. Whatever you think your page looks like, God gives us an opportunity to write something greater than we can imagine.
Every single morning, God gives us a new page, not because we earned a clean slate, but because His mercy simply does not run out. Jeremiah wrote this in the middle of unimaginable loss, surrounded by the wreckage of a fallen city, and yet God inspired him to write:
Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22-23)
If mercy could be new every morning for a man watching his whole world collapse, it can be new every morning for you too.
When we belong to Jesus, the final word of our lives belong to the Author, and if you’re reading this, He is still writing.
When we’re born again, we don’t have to write the ending of our story. We can entrust it to God’s omniscience. Isn’t that comforting? I mean, honestly, we barely comprehend the chapter we’re currently in. The parent in the trenches of toddlerhood can’t see the capable, grounded adult that child will become. The exhausted student can’t yet see the graduation, the license, or the years of steady, skilled work ahead. The person clocking into a second shift can’t always see how this season of sacrifice is shaping their character and investing in the people they love. And the one navigating a painful relationship can’t always see what wisdom and clarity God is building. But the Author sees all of it, and He is not finished. Paul, writing from jail, told the believers in Philippi:
Being confident of this very thing, that He who has BEGUN a good work in you will COMPLETE it until the day of Jesus Christ. (Philippians 1:6)
The confidence there isn’t in our ability to finish well in our own strength. It’s in His. That takes the crushing pressure of performance off our shoulders and puts the weight where it belongs—on Jesus, Who is faithful to complete what He started. The grind is not greater than Jesus.
Surrendered to God, we are capable of works greater than we can imagine.
Right before Jesus went to the cross, He told His disciples:
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also, and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. (John 14:12)
Greater works than Jesus did?
Not greater in power or divinity, but greater in reach, carried out through ordinary, surrendered people, including the ones folding laundry at midnight, studying for boards on four hours of sleep, working a double, or praying for a spouse after the marriage seems to be over. God inspired Paul to write to the Ephesians:
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us. (Ephesians 3:20)
That power working in us is the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead. This is functional, active, and available power in the midst of the craziness. God knows the difference between a sprint and a season that stretches on without an obvious finish line. He speaks directly to our weary seasons:
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:28-31)
This is a promise of renewed strength inside every tough situation. On the days when you feel like your effort is invisible, whether at a job, in a classroom, or while raising a child who won’t remember any of the sacrifice, God offers encouragement:
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. (Galatians 6:9)
If you’re trying to navigate a relationship that leaves you filled with uncertainty and pain, God promises us generous wisdom:
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it WILL be given to him. (James 1:5)
And when you don’t know which way to walk next, God promises to guide—not from a distance, but personally:
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. (Psalm 32:8)
Every morning and every day of our lives is a blank page that God wants to fill with His wonderful plans!
My friend, we don’t wake up to a page God is struggling to fill. He doesn’t stare at today the way we stare at a blinking cursor, unsure what comes next. He has never once run dry on words, plans, or purpose for your life!
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21)
Exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think. That’s not a modest promise. But it comes with a condition. His power only moves in a heart that’s fully surrendered. Every room, including the ones we’d rather keep the door closed on—the tired thoughts, the resentments, and the fears we’ve been managing on our own. When we hand Him the whole house, the story He writes through that surrender is bigger than the one we could have drafted ourselves!
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. (Jeremiah 29:11)
Prayer
Lord, thank You that Your mercies toward me are new every morning and that Your faithfulness never runs out, no matter how tiring or uncertain this season feels. I surrender today’s page to You, whatever it holds, and I ask You to do the greater works You promised through a life fully yielded to You. Give me Your strength when I am weary, Your wisdom when I am confused, and Your patience when the tough time lasts longer than I expected. Complete what You have started in me, and let me trust Your authorship over my own understanding. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
