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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Richard Oppong Boateng

Good morning.

As I was driving recently, an interview came on the radio featuring a Premier League footballer who has scored more than one hundred goals for his club. The interviewer asked him how he dealt with some of the criticism that he had received during his career. He responded, ‘I am my own hardest critic. I try as best as I can to learn from my mistakes and to do better the next game, I always try to stay positive.’ What stuck out to me about his response was the assurance of the fact there would be another game.

This comment reminded me of a bible verse in Lamentations 3:22-23 ‘the steadfast Love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.’

Each day, God’s love and mercies are new. This is such a comfort for me to know especially if the previous day was a disaster. Like the footballer in the interview, we can have a mindset that says ‘today is a new day where I will look to do better than I did yesterday and learn from my mistakes’. When we mess up, we can know the forgiveness of God, and know that we don’t have to hold it against ourselves as God doesn’t hold it against us, His mercies are new every morning.

Thank you God that your love and mercies are new every day. Help me to do better today than I did yesterday. And help me to be a blessing to people around me.

Amen.