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Lamentations 3:23
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
✦ Understand this verseחָדָשׁ
châdâsh · Hebrew · H2319
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Sermon title
Beginning the year with the LORD as our portion
Main idea
A new year does not begin with the promises we make to ourselves, but with God’s faithfulness, which is new every morning.
Text
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Lamentations 3:21-26 · Read the chapter →
Introduction
At the turn of the year it is common to review what has passed and to list plans for what lies ahead. Lamentations was written after the destruction of Jerusalem, in a time of loss, and yet it holds some of the most hopeful words in the Bible. They teach us to look back, to begin and to plan with God at the centre.
1. Looking back with the right memory
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Lamentations 3:21-22 · Read the chapter →
The prophet decides what he will call to mind: it is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. A review of the year gone by cannot hold only losses and frustrations; it has to include the mercy that has carried us this far.
Application: Before listing goals, thank God in prayer for the care and protection of the year that is ending.
2. Beginning with God as our portion
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Lamentations 3:23-24 · Read the chapter →
God’s mercies are new every morning, and the prophet concludes: the LORD is my portion; therefore will I hope in him. A portion was the share of an inheritance that belonged to each person. Before any goal, the new year begins with the assurance that our greatest share is God himself.
Application: Put God at the start of the year: set apart the first moments of each day for the Word and prayer.
3. Planning with “if the Lord will”
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
James 4:13-15 · Read the chapter →
James does not condemn making plans; he condemns planning as if tomorrow were guaranteed. Life is a vapour, here for a little while and then gone. So he teaches us to say: “If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.”
Application: Write down your plans for the year and pray over them, giving God the right to change them.
Conclusion
Lamentations goes on: the LORD is good unto them that wait for him, and it is good both to hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. We do not know what this year will bring, but we know who will be there every morning of it. Begin the year waiting on the Lord.