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Daily Devotion: Psalm 119:156

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Psalm 119:156    "Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments."

Back in Psalm 104:1, we saw the statement, "Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great." Today we read ""Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD."  The writer of Lamentations tells us, "This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.  (22)  It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.  (23)  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."  (Lamentations 3:21-23)  We sometimes can lose hope and only see the dark side of life when we lose sight of the greatness of our God.

His mercies are new every morning. His mercies are great every morning. God is great every morning. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. That "morning" can be a literal dawning of a new day or that "morning" can be the dawning of a new stage of our lives.  If you have ever spent a sleepless night, tossing and turning, with something weighing heavily on your mind, then you know and understand the truth of God's mercy in bringing the sunrise.  If you have been in a season of life where you did not know what would be the outcome, you understand the truth of God's mercy when the light of the next stage arises. There is hope even in the darkness because God is great and His mercies are new every day.

I write these things as one who is practicing the art of trusting God's mercies; not as one who has perfected the art of patiently waiting for God's merciful answers. But this I do know - Our God is great and all His works are wonderful as He brings them about in our lives. We can surely trust His tender mercies. We have hope because God 's love is everlasting.  Wait upon Him and trust Him while waiting.

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