Good morning! It’s Wednesday, September 10th, 2025. Most of Lamentations reads like someone needed a good counselor and maybe a long vacation. It’s complaint after complaint, grief on top of grief. But then, right in the middle of all the weeping, a worship song breaks out. It’s almost as if the complainer drops the tissues, lifts his hands, and remembers: God’s mercies are new every morning.
Today's Reading:
Lamentations 3,4,5; Revelation 15mentations 1,2; Obadiah; Revelation 14
Scripture
“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” (Lamentations 3:22-23)
Observation
I’ll never forget the day a crane struck the overpass on the H-1 and shut the freeway down. What should’ve been a normal drive turned into hours of going nowhere. People were frustrated, tempers flared, and my own heart wasn’t far behind. I had worship music playing, but I wasn’t worshiping—I was fuming. Then the next track rolled over to “Great Is Thy Faithfulness.” It felt like God was nudging me: “Chris, can you still worship even here, in the middle of this?”
That’s exactly where the author of Lamentations found himself. His city was in ruins, his people broken, and despair hung in the air. Yet in the middle, he declared: “Great is Your faithfulness.” He didn’t wait for the restoration before he praised—he worshiped right in the middle of the rubble.
Application
I find it easier to worship on the other side of problems—when things are going well, the prayers are answered, or the freeway finally reopens. But worship isn’t just the celebration after the breakthrough. It’s the declaration that God is faithful before the breakthrough comes.
Every sunrise reminds me His mercies are new again, even if yesterday was a disaster. When I choose to worship in the middle, I’m not denying the reality of the struggle—I’m proclaiming a greater reality: that God is still good, still sovereign, still worthy. Worship in the middle is an act of faith that says, “This situation doesn’t get the final word—God does.”
Prayer
Lord, thank You that Your compassions never fail. I can worship in the middle because Your mercies meet me right here between yesterday’s pain and tomorrow’s questions. Great is Your faithfulness in the past, great is Your faithfulness in the future, and great is Your faithfulness in the middle. Amen.
-Chris Kiriakos