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My Daily Meditation For The Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

FEBRUARY The Twenty-fifth THE FRESH EYE

|His compassions fail not: they are new every morning.| -- LAMENTATIONS iii.22-33.

We have not to live on yesterday's manna; we can gather it fresh to-day. Compassion becomes stale when it becomes thoughtless. It is new thought that keeps our pity strong. If our perception of need can remain vivid, as vivid as though we had never seen it before, our sympathies will never fail. The fresh eye insures the sensitive heart. And our God's compassions are so new because He never becomes accustomed to our need. He always sees it with an eye that is never dulled by the commonplace; He never becomes blind with much seeing! We can look at a thing so often that we cease to see it. God always sees a thing as though He were seeing it for the first time. |Thou, God, seest me,| and |His compassions fail not.|

And if my compassions are to be like a river that never knows drought, I must cultivate a freshness of sight. The horrible can lose its horrors. The daily tragedy can become the daily commonplace. My neighbour's needs can become as familiar as my furniture, and I may never see either the one or the other. And therefore must I ask the Lord for the daily gift of discerning eyes. |Lord, that I may receive my sight.| And with an always newly-awakened interest may I reveal |the compassions of the Lord!|

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