They Are New Every Morning by
James Buchanan from Comfort in Affliction, 1837 His compassions never fail. They
are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. Lamentations
chapter 3 verse 24 Each Christian may find in his
own case some peculiar token of God's providential kindness
to him. It is in the details of each
man's personal history that we find the most touching manifestations
of God's providential care. None of us can refuse to acknowledge
that we have been the objects of a watchfulness which has never
slumbered, and of a benevolence which has never been weary in
doing us good. Were we to attempt an enumeration
of all the blessings which we have received at God's hand,
deliverances which He has wrought out for us, snares from which
He has preserved us, manifestations of His long-suffering patience
and tender mercy of which we ourselves have been the objects?
Were we to begin with the years of infancy and helplessness,
and to trace our progress through the slippery paths of youth until
we reach our present state, we would soon find how impossible
it is to reckon up the sum of our innumerable obligations to
the loving kindness of the Lord. For not only has God spared us
in life, and upheld us from day to day by His almighty power,
not only has He given us our daily bread, and made our cup
to run over, and that too notwithstanding all the ingratitude which we
have displayed, and the manifold provocations which we have offered,
But, in peculiar seasons, in seasons of difficulty and trial,
He has often delivered our eyes from tears, and our feet from
falling, and our souls from death. And as often as we have cried
to the Lord in our trouble, He has delivered us from our distresses. or supported and comforted us
under them so that each of his redeemed people on a review of
God's dealings with him will be forced to exclaim, The Lord
has been my shepherd. I have not lacked any good thing. Hitherto has the Lord helped
me. The Lord has done all things
well. Surely, goodness and mercy have
followed me all the days of my life.