Lamentations 3:22. It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
See where Jeremiah gets his comfort; he seems to say, "Bad as my case is, it might have been worse, for I might have been consumed, and I should have been consumed if the Lord’s compassions had failed." Ah, brethren and sisters, and we too might have been in hell at this very moment! Amidst the hottest flames of that hopeless place we might have been enduring the wrath of God, but we are not there, and blessed be his name for that! "It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not." He still has compassion upon us; if he had not, he would have given us up altogether; but there is love in his heart, even while there is a frown upon his brow, and while his hand is smiting us, his heart is loving us still.
Lamentations 3:22. It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
See where Jeremiah gets his comfort; he seems to say, "Bad as my case is, it might have been worse, for I might have been consumed, and I should have been consumed if the Lord’s compassions had failed." Ah, brethren and sisters, and we too might have been in hell at this very moment! Amidst the hottest flames of that hopeless place we might have been enduring the wrath of God, but we are not there, and blessed be his name for that! "It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not." He still has compassion upon us; if he had not, he would have given us up altogether; but there is love in his heart, even while there is a frown upon his brow, and while his hand is smiting us, his heart is loving us still.