New Every Morning

The Feast

This passage arrives in the middle of a book largely devoted to raw grief over Jerusalem’s destruction, and the specific mechanism named for hope emerging is worth noticing directly: this I recall to my mind, deliberate remembering, functioning as the actual pathway from despair back toward genuine hope.

Notice new every morning. This is not remembering a single, distant past event and hoping its effects somehow still apply. It is recognizing an ongoing, daily renewal, mercies genuinely fresh each morning, not depleted or exhausted by yesterday’s use, but continually, actively renewed, worth remembering specifically as a present, ongoing reality.

This offers a needed corrective against treating remembrance as merely nostalgic, looking backward at what God once did as if that faithfulness were now finished or historical. Great is thy faithfulness is present tense, ongoing, new every morning, not merely a monument to past mercy but a living, continuing reality worth remembering as still, actively true.

Whatever grief or despair you may be carrying, recall this to your mind today, specifically. His compassions fail not. They are new every morning. Let this deliberate remembrance become, as it did for this ancient writer, the actual pathway back toward genuine hope, even in the middle of real sorrow.