Lamentations 3:22-23 Staying Focused on God’s Unfailing Compassion

Lamentations 3:22-23 (KJV)  It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 

Jeremiah described His God as a fountain of living waters. Not dead but living.

Our LORD’S compassion never runs dry, the poor sinner must run and flee to Him to be nourished each time. The word “compassion” is a noun that originates from the word which means “womb” to describe motherly love and the verb is “love”, the love that is like the security of the unborn child nourished in the mother’s womb. The child is simply helpless. When we acknowledge our utter disability God will show us His exceeding ability through us. These words of hope are the experience of Jeremiah and he shared with us how he was rejuvenated because the Fountain of Living Waters has nourished him.

He said this of the people of Israel Jeremiah 2:13 “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” Jeremiah 17:13 “O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.”

Our Lord Jesus said these words to the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4:14 “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”

Mercy is the undeserved kindness and goodness of God showered upon His people. It is because of the unfailing love of the LORD that we have our being and life. Amen.