Mercies or Donuts?

Good Monday and happy whatever day it is to you. I'm not messing with the moon phase thing again, not since I blew it last time. (It was last quarter, not first.) Wouldn't a nice box of fresh donuts be good this morning? Yeah, but those calories. We tend to think first of something we can touch or eat, like donuts, before we give thanks to God for what we do have new each morning. In Lamentations 3:22-23 we find that God's mercies fail not, they are new every morning. Fresh mercies! Just what we need too. Yet, did I remember to thank God for His new mercy this morning? Yes, but mainly because that is what I woke up wanting to write the devotional about and not due to any supersaint status. Without a forewarning, I might very well have given thought to breakfast before I remembered to give thanks and glory to God.

Back in the day, a friend and I often worked through the night. In the morning - that is that part of the day technically known as morning, also known to most folks as the dead of night - we finished work and headed down to see if the donut shop was open. At around 0400, Larry and Dola cooked the first of the deep-fried glazed donuts. Getting those donuts fresh, as in melt-in-the-mouth fresh, was a rare treat. Rare mainly because folks with any sense were not awake at that time of the day, but nevertheless a treat for the taste buds. Mercy was far from my mind at that time. However, I was never far from God's mind. We don't often think what a mercy it is that God even acknowledges our existence, much less our need for salvation.

In antediluvian times, that means before the big deluge, God decided to destroy most of the people. The Bible does not say whether God sent prophets to warn anyone, but the people of that time were rather close to the beginning; they certainly knew about good and evil and that they were on the wrong side of it. We may not think what a mercy it is to live after God promised not to do that again. After this came the dark ages before the invention of donuts. God chose one people, gave them His law, and told them to obey and they would enjoy His mercies. They couldn't, but not because they didn't have donuts. We are blessed with God's mercy to live in a time when the law has been satisfied by our Lord Jesus. I'm really trying hard not to add, 'and we have donuts'. I think it is a mercy that God puts up with my humor. We have mercies new each morning that we know not. Praise God for our brand new mercies this morning!

Bucky