SPEAKER_00: Hi everyone, this is Nancy with your Wednesday edition of our daily walk.
SPEAKER_00: This past Sunday I enjoyed time with my two adult sons.
SPEAKER_00: Their love and watch care over me is such a blessing.
SPEAKER_00: They are truly the hands and feet of the Lord in my life in so many ways.
SPEAKER_00: In the quiet of this morning, I've been reflecting a bit on my mother who loved God with all her heart.
SPEAKER_00: No matter what challenges she faced, and she faced many difficult ones.
SPEAKER_00: She clung deeply to her belief in God's faithfulness, and she placed her hope in him, trusting that he would see her through and on to eternal life with him.
SPEAKER_00: I asked that a portion of a verse in Lamentations be written on her headstone, because I do believe her faithfulness to God was great, and his faithfulness and his mercy was great towards her.
SPEAKER_00: Let me share with you the verses in Lamentations that I believed she lived.
SPEAKER_00: Lamentations 3, beginning with the last part of verse 21 and reading through verse 26.
SPEAKER_00: But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope.
SPEAKER_00: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.
SPEAKER_00: His mercies never come to an end.
SPEAKER_00: They are new every morning.
SPEAKER_00: Great is your faithfulness.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord is my portion, says my soul.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore I will hope in him.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
SPEAKER_00: It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: This past Sunday we sang that great hymn that draws from that very passage.
SPEAKER_00: Do you remember the words?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I can remember my mother singing that song.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes in a church service, and sometimes in the quiet of her own personal devotional time.
SPEAKER_00: Great is thy faithfulness, O God, my Father.
SPEAKER_00: There is no shadow of turning with thee.
SPEAKER_00: Thou changest not.
SPEAKER_00: Thy compassions they fail not.
SPEAKER_00: As thou hast been, thou forever wilt be.
SPEAKER_00: Summer and winter and springtime and harvest, sun, moon, and stars in their courses above, join with all nature in manifold witness to thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love.
SPEAKER_00: Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth.
SPEAKER_00: Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide, strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.
SPEAKER_00: Blessings all mine, and ten thousand beside.
SPEAKER_00: Great is thy faithfulness.
SPEAKER_00: Morning by morning, new mercies I see.
SPEAKER_00: All I have needed, thy hand has provided.
SPEAKER_00: Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.