Failure has a way of becoming an identity before it should. These verses are for pulling those two things apart.
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“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 (KJV)
“Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.”
Micah 7:8 (KJV)“For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.”
Proverbs 24:16 (KJV)Lamentations 3:22-23 was written in the ruins of Jerusalem, after catastrophic failure on a national scale. And in that rubble, the writer found the one thing that hadn't failed: God's mercies, new every morning. Not new every year. Not new eventually. New every morning — meaning yesterday's failure doesn't determine today's starting point. Micah 7:8 says the same thing differently: the fall isn't the end. The arising is.