Mercies New

Nichole Nordeman's CD was next in my player after I finished the last post. How cool is God to let me hear this song right now? It is so unusual that I don't recall ever hearing it before, when I've meditated a million times this year on the verses from Lamentations 3:21-23 -

21 Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:
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.

After times like today's service where I start to wallow in guilt and regret over the things I haven't done right, or opportunities missed, or take on hurt needlessly over how other believers disappoint me, not thinking of how I disappoint them, and more importantly, my Father, daily; it's so good to remember that thankfully, I have hope, in Him.

Is it fair to say I was lured away
by endless distractions and lovelier attractions then?
Or fairer still, my own free will
Is the better one to blame for this familiar mess I've made

So I would understand if You were out of patience
And I would understand if I were out of chances

Chorus:

But Your mercies are new every morning
So let me wake with the dawn
And when the music is through, or so it seems to be
Let me sing a new song
Old things gone
Everyday is true - You make all Your mercies new

The distance left between east and west
Is how far You would go to forgive the debt I owe
And thrown into the sea the wicked ways of me
Will never have a chance to walk back on the sand

So I would understand if You would make me pay
And I would understand lying in the bed I made again

Chorus

Up comes the sun on everyone of us
Gone, gone, gone the guilt and shame that knew your name