Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“RECALL HIS MERCIES-PRESERVED BY GRACE”

Lamentations 3:22 — “It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed.”

Jeremiah sat in the wreckage of Judah and made an astonishing confession—we are still here. That alone was evidence of God’s mercy. Judah had rebelled, turned to idolatry, and rejected God’s warnings. By all human standards, they deserved to be wiped out completely. Yet they were not consumed.

Why? Not because of Judah’s goodness, but because of God’s promises. God had bound Himself to Abraham, to Moses, to Joshua, and to David. To destroy Judah entirely would be to deny His own word. Their survival rested solely on God’s covenant faithfulness, not human merit. God preserved a remnant because He is a promise-keeping God (McGee, 1997).

The same truth applies to us. If God dealt with us strictly according to what we deserve, none of us would stand. We are preserved by mercy alone. A proper RESET begins when we stop asking why life is hard and start thanking God that we are still here—kept by His mercy.