Not January 1st New Year \u2013 but a brand-new school year! Lots of online photos of \u201cfirst day of school\u201d for many young students and even my Brennan’s first day of school at University of Mary Hardin Baylor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I went into Walmart for a quick few items, and saw many parents and their children loading up their carts with school supplies. Where I live, providing school supplies by our residents was one of our do-good endeavors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Raising two kiddos of my own, I clearly remember the excitement, stress, and potential the phrase \u201cback-to-school\u201d used to mean. This is a big week for a lot of families.
For people like me, it simply means I should pay attention to those blinking school-zone lights while I\u2019m driving. And, also, for grandparents like us, it is attending sports and other activities that our grands are involved in. I might add that it is one of the joys of grandparenting \u2013 doting on them with pride and joy \u2013 performing and\/or winning or losing their sports games.
As I see those \u201cfirst day of school\u201d photos and exhilarated moms and dads taking those photos, I think of these verses: \u201cThe steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.\u201d Lamentations 3:22-23<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I thought about the fact that God created us to learn and grow and purpose to know Him more. One of the great joys of life is that every morning is a new opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But why don\u2019t we always see the newness amidst the sameness? Those two verses of Lamentations offer a lesson about God\u2019s greatness that all of us should learn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only God is both unchanging AND new. God\u2019s love is steadfast, unceasing. The only thing in our lives that stays the same is God\u2019s love. Everything else changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God\u2019s mercies never come to an end. God could have made every person, every day, and everyone\u2019s experiences the same. Instead, God created a complex, ever-changing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God\u2019s mercies are new every morning. God wanted us to wake up every day with the knowledge that we can do and learn something new with our daily moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Great is God\u2019s faithfulness. God created an always-changing world so we would understand that He is uniquely steadfast. The only thing in life that is unceasing is the powerful love of God. And His mercies are new every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The truth is “back-to-school” is for every one of us. Proverbs 18:15 says: \u201cAn intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, never is there a day when wisdom allows us to stop learning. God is the only unchanging, steadfast \u201crock.\u201d The Lord has something new to teach us about Himself today. We should be straining to fully experience that lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God doesn\u2019t want us to just hear, read, or realize His truths. He want us to take them into our hearts so that we fully experience God, and, to do that, we need to think about, ponder on, and strain to fully learn His steadfast, unchanging, but always-new mercies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m thinking that we all need to go back to school today. Good news is we don\u2019t have to go to the classroom, but we can open God\u2019s Word, pray our way through the day and then we\u2019ll experience God\u2019s new mercies. And the same will be true for tomorrow. Let\u2019s let God\u2019s voice surprise us today. It\u2019s a new day — and God is faithful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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