We Win...

Lamentations 3:22-25 (NIV)

22 Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.

23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.

24 I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him."

25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;

Lamentations...a book that was written by Jeremiah after the fall of Israel to the Babylonians...a book that, by name, would suggest having a miserable attitude when reading it. However God never writes books that way. He always shows that, no matter what's going on (even if it's our fault), that he will see us through and be faithful to his end of the deal. I've come to learn that in the times of my greatest struggles and greatest afflictions that God's story (which I am a part of) always comes out with God (and those on his side) winning...

"If you flip all the way to the back of the book...we win!"
-Israel Houghton

God gave us his word and has plainly suggested that he is authoring human history. He does give us choice, but in light of that choice, he orchestrates the greatest story ever to be told to mankind. God never lets go, he never goes back on a promise, he is never unfaithful, and he is always unfailing.

I have always gone through trials since becoming a Christian (and in fact it was a trial that drove me to my knees before the cross in the first place). Right now I am going through an assortment of huge trials, and sometimes I don't think I can do it on my own...and technically I'm right...I can't. Through this period of uncertainty in my life I have allowed Jesus to become by daily portion...my means by which I move and breath. Truly he has been faithful to me, by being provisional both practically and with the peace that passes all understanding.

I have had the privilege of waking up every morning saying "truly God's compassions are new every morning"...

He is faithful.