Lamentations 3:22-23 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Some people have said
that it is a good thing that God’s love and grace are always new every morning
because we have already used up yesterday’s allotment. The definition of
grace is unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification.
That definition is an accurate picture of God’s love towards his
Children.
King David was considered a man after God’s own heart in the Bible. The first recorded incident was by Samuel, who anointed a young David to replace the fallen King Saul (1 Samuel 13:14). The second recounting in the Bible of David’s being a “man after God’s own heart” was by the Apostle Paul (Acts 13:22). Being referred to as a person after God’s own heart does not make one perfect or anywhere near faultless. David was wholly surrendered to God and loved God with his heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit. Even so, David fell into an adulterous affair with a woman he had seen bathing on her roof. Once the affair was impossible to hide any longer, David had her husband, Uriah, placed in a hazardous location in a battle so that Uriah would lose his life. David often spoke about the mercy of God because he needed so much of it. Only when we are sincere in our assessment of ourselves can we agree with David in the 107th Psalm (Psalm 107:1).
Sometimes we feel the need to heap praise on ourselves for some accomplishment that we have completed. Paul, the undisputed greatest evangelist of all time, wrote: “For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out” (Romans 7:18). There is no way possible for us to bestow grace or mercy on others until we come to terms with our own need for grace and mercy from God.
If we were perfect, no one could get anywhere near us because we would naturally expect that same perfection from others. When the hour comes that we seem to forget about our faults and culpabilities, we will most certainly be hard to be around. When this time of self-unawareness comes and come it will, God will always bring our human defective and imperfect condition to our minds. God will always allow us to veer off the straight and narrow path just far enough to realize that we need Him and his grace, love, and mercy every day of our lives. This loving act of our Father in heaven will keep our humility in check and allow us to be fair and faithful servants to Christ Jesus and the furtherance of His Gospel, to a lost, dark, and dying world.
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