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Jeremiah’s Declaration of Thanksgiving, November 19
Those Who Have Conquered
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.
Lamentations 3:22, 23
The faithful prophet was daily strengthened to endure. “The Lord
is with me as a mighty terrible one,” he declared in faith; “therefore
my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be
greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion
shall never be forgotten.” “Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord: for
He hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of the evildoers.”
The experiences through which Jeremiah passed in the days of his youth
and also in the later years of his ministry taught him the lesson that “the
way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his
steps.” He learned to pray, “O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not
in Thine anger, lest Thou bring me to nothing.”
When called to drink of the cup of tribulation and sorrow, and when
tempted in his misery to say, “My strength and my hope is perished
from the Lord,” he recalled the providences of God in his behalf, and
triumphantly exclaimed, “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not con-
sumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning:
great is Thy faithfulness.”
Many professed Christians dwell too much on the dark side of life,
when they might rejoice in the sunshine; they repine when they should
be glad; they talk of trials when they should offer praise for the rich
blessings they enjoy. They look at the unpleasant things, hoard up the
disappointments, and sigh over the griefs, and, as a consequence, grow
heavyhearted and sad, when, should they count up their blessings, they
would find them so numerous that they would forget to mention their
annoyances. If they would every day take note of the favors that are
done them; if they would store their minds with the precious memory
of kindnesses received, how much occasion they would find to render
thanks and praise to the Giver of all good.
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