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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
Lamentations 3:24
‘I hope in him’
Read Lamentations 3:1-26
I hope in God’s immutable mercy. Some people trust their works. Others place all confidence in their religion. But we who believe know that ‘It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed.’ I am by nature a guilty, helpless sinner. I have no hope but in God, who ‘delighteth in mercy’ (Micah 7:18). God’s mercies towards my soul are many: eternal mercy, redemptive mercy, saving mercy and daily mercy. All God’s mercy is in Christ. All of God’s, mercy in Christ is immutable.
I hope in God’s unfailing love. ‘God is love’ (1 John 4:16). ‘Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins’ (1 John 4:10). God’s love is sure and unchangeable. He who so loved me that he gave his Son to redeem me will not withhold any good thing from me. This gives me hope. ‘Because his compassions fail not,’ the eternal God will never cease to love his own. This gives me hope.
God’s unchanging faithfulness also gives me hope. ‘Great is thy’ faithfulness!’ This I know: God is faithful. ‘If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself (2 Timothy 2:13). God is faithful to his purpose, faithful to his Word, faithful to his covenant, faithful to his people, and faithful to his Son. Divine faithfulness fills me with hope. I often doubt myself. I often question the motives and actions of men. But I cannot question or doubt the faithfulness of my God.
And I have hope because of God’s inexhaustible goodness. Jeremiah said it, and we have often proved it: ‘The Lord is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him’ (Lamentations 3:26). God will do good and nothing but good for his own all the days of our lives and for all eternity. This is my hope, a good hope God has given me by his grace. Do you have a good hope?
