WEDNESDAY, 27TH SEPTEMBER, 2023.
Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE
TOPIC: THE INEXHAUSTIBLE COMPASSION OF GOD
MEMORIZE: "It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not." Lamentation 3:22.
SCRIPTURE READING: Lamentation 3:21-25.
“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. 24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
EXPOSITION:
Let us see what these things are which prophet Jeremiah calls to mind. As bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that they are not worse. We are afflicted either by the rod of his wrath or the attack of the enemy, but it is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, Lamentation 3:22. When we are in distress we should, for the encouragement of our faith and hope, observe what makes for us as well as what makes against us. Things are bad but they might have been worse, and therefore there is hope that they may be better. Observe here,
1. THE STREAMS OF MERCY ACKNOWLEDGED: WE ARE NOT CONSUMED. Note, The church of God is like Moses's bush, burning, yet not consumed; whatever hardships it has met with, or may meet with, it shall have a being in the world to the end of time. It is persecuted of men, but not forsaken of God, and therefore, though it is cast down, it is not destroyed (2Co 4:9), corrected, yet not consumed, refined in the furnace as silver, but not consumed as dross.
2. THESE STREAMS FOLLOWED UP TO THE FOUNTAIN: IT IS OF THE LORD'S MERCIES. Here are mercies in the plural number, denoting the abundance and variety of those mercies. God is an inexhaustible fountain of mercy, the Father of mercies. Note, We all owe it to the sparing mercy of God that we are not consumed. Others have been consumed round about us, and we ourselves have been in the consuming, and yet we are not consumed; we are out of the grave; we are out of hell. Had we been dealt with according to our sins, we should have been consumed long ago; but we have been dealt with according to God's mercies, and we are bound to acknowledge it to his praise.
PRAYER POINT: LORD, I receive grace to dwell in your mercy all the days of my life in Jesus name.
DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Hosea 8 - 10
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