Great is Thy Faithfulness

Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have needed Thy hand hath provided; great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me.

Sometimes, we wait for morning. Now that isn't necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes it is. It can be bad if you wait for morning for new mercies. Sometimes, when we realize that we've failed, we hide. We try to cover ourselves up, wait for morning, for a change in scenery, to accept mercy and make a new beginning. We don't seem to realize that there is the rest of the day left to work. When people fail around, say, noon, there is still a good 12 hours left in the day. It isn't like, oops, you had your one failure for today, now go sit in a corner and wait until tomorrow morning. Then you can try again. It doesn't even matter if you continue messing up anymore, because you haven't been forgiven for that last thing you did. That isn't how God works.

Ok, this might sound a little weird. But haven't you ever done it? Am I really the only one who has said something along the lines of "Well, yes, I do slack off with my homework. But it's ok... I'll wait until next semester, then I'll keep up on my work. Honest!" We wait for something big or dramatic to happen before we change our behavior. Maybe it's "Yes, I have been behind on my Bible reading, but I'll catch up... once this season of Psych is over". I don't know what it is in your life, but I know I have a few places in mine where I am waiting for "morning" to receive the new mercies, to begin anew.

But people, let's keep in mind here that this is God we're talking about! God, who is faithful through all of our failures and mishaps. Even when we fail, He is willing to pick us up immediately and offer us a second, third, ten-thousand-fifty-ninth chance. He isn't a God who waits for morning to provide us with exactly everything we need. He's willing now. Are you ready to accept it?