Sometimes waking up to another day is difficult. We have problems leftover from the day before (and maybe you don’t even like leftovers in the frig), and we know we will have to face them and deal with them. Add to that we don’t know what a new day is going to bring. What crisis will we have to face personally? What tragedy will we have to help someone we love get through? What unexpected phone call, email, or text will we get that puts another heaping of trouble on our already full plate? Yeah, sometimes we don’t think it’s worth the effort to even get out of bed.

However, I think that is a wrong way for us to be thinking about each new day that God gives us. God will certainly allow us to face each new day like the gloomy Eeyore character in Winnie the Pooh, but the Bible is pretty clear how we should look at each new day:

“The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. ‘The LORD is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘therefore I will hope in him.’” (Lamentations 3:22-24)

Mornings are God’s reminders that we get a new start with a fresh set of invigorating God-sent mercies! I know that I need this reminder every now and then because I get into a habit of being pessimistic about a new day; those are days when I am cynical and looking for the next “bad” thing to happen. But just think what would happen if everyone reading this decided to wake up every morning thanking God for the mercies He guarantees for the day. Take this challenge: write out Lamentations 3:22-24, put it in a place where it will be the first thing you see and therefore think about each morning, do this for 40 days, and then start talking about how God changed your days by thinking of His never-ending supply of mercy for each day.

Grace & Peace,