UCB WORD FOR TODAY 20TH APRIL 2026 (MONDAY DAILY DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE)
Read UCB Word For Today 20th April 2026 Daily Devotional by United Christian Broadcasters.
TOPIC: God forgives and forgets (3)
‘His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning.’
Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV
The English word for new is the Hebrew word hadas. It doesn’t just mean again and again, as amazing as that would be. It’s new, as in different. It means never before experienced. Today’s mercy is different from yesterday’s mercy, or the day before that, or the day before that! Just as the seasonal flu vaccine changes from year to year, God’s mercy changes from day to day. It’s a new strain of mercy. Why? Because you didn’t sin today the way you did yesterday!
Try this little exercise: figure out how old you are – not in years but in days. Whatever number you come up with isn’t just your age in days; it doubles as the sum total of different kinds of mercy that you have received life-to-date. By the time you are twenty-one, you have experienced 7,665 unique mercies. When you hit midlife, it numbers about 14,600. And by the time you hit retirement, God has shown mercy to you about 23,725 times! And His mercy for you is a tailored mercy that perfectly fits your sin, your shortcomings, your needs, and your mistakes. His mercy fits like a glove!
In Scripture, the word ‘manifold’ means ‘multifaceted’. Mercy and grace are not the same thing. Mercy is not getting what you do deserve, and grace is getting what you don’t deserve. The apostle Peter spoke about ‘the manifold grace of God’ (1 Peter 4:10 NKJV). Like snowflakes, God’s grace never crystallises the same way twice. That’s what makes it so amazing!
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Judges 19-21, John 8:1-27
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