A New Day

By: Pastor Johnie Akers 

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.” Thomas Chisholm was born in a simple log cabin in Franklin, Kentucky.  He only was able to achieve an elementary education.  In any other advanced education, he was self-taught.  However, because of a vacuum in the community, he began at the age of 16 a career as a teacher in the little one room schoolhouse where he had been taught.  After trusting in Jesus Christ as his Savior, he became the editor of The Pentecostal Herald and was ordained as a Methodist minister.  Prior to his death, he wrote in his journal:  “My income has never been large at any time due to impaired health in the earlier years which has followed me on until now.  But I must not fail to record here the unfailing faithfulness of a covenant keeping God and that He has given me many wonderful displays of His providing care which have filled me with astonishing gratefulness.”  The hymn that bears his testimony has uplifted thousands throughout the years.  Rev. Chisholmpenned these words:  Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father!  There is no shadow of turning with Thee; Thou changest not; Thy compassions, they fail not: As thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.  Great is Thy faithfulness!  Great is Thy faithfulness!  Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed Thy hand hath provided—Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.  Friend, no matter what your need is, our heavenly Father is faithful.  If you are at this moment in need of employment, if your health is failing, if circumstances have overwhelmed you to the point that you feel like giving up and giving in, just remember, where God guides, God provides.  God is faithful.  As Jeremiah penned in our text today, God’s compassions are new every morning.  No matter what you need, no matter where you are, no matter what you are going through, one thing is sure, God is faithful.  Trust Him today to meet every need you may have, and allow His faithfulness to demonstrate for you, a bright new day.