Each new day gives us new reasons to praise the Lord.

每个新的日子，都让我们有新的理由赞美主。

His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

 Lamentations 3:22-23

祂的怜悯不致断绝。每早晨这都是新的。祢的诚实极其广大！

-耶利米哀歌3章22-23节

When I was growing up, one of my favorite books was Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. In one amusing passage, young Anne, by mistake, adds a skin medication instead of vanilla to the cake she is making. Afterward, she exclaims hopefully to her stern-faced guardian, Marilla, “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

在我成长的历程中，我很喜欢露西·莫得·蒙哥马利的著作《清秀佳人》。书中有一段颇富趣味的情节：故事主角安妮，曾在年幼的时候，误将皮肤药当成香草，加进她做的蛋糕里。当安妮面对脸色铁青的监护人马莉拉时，她满怀希望地说：「想到明天是新的一天，是个还没有过失的日子，这多美好啊！」

I like that thought: tomorrow is a new day—a new day when we can start afresh. We all make mistakes. But when it comes to sin, God’s forgiveness is what enables us to start each morning with a clean slate. When we repent, He chooses to remember our sins no more (Jer. 31:34; Heb. 8:12).

我喜欢这个想法：明天是新的一天，是我们可以重新开始的一天。我们都会犯错，但即使犯了罪，上帝的饶恕仍能使我们每个早晨都焕然一新，重新出发。只要我们愿意认罪悔改，祂就不再记念我们的罪恶（耶利米书31章34节；希伯来书8章12节）。

Some of us have made wrong choices in our lives, but our past words and deeds need not define our future in God’s eyes. There is always a fresh start. When we ask for His forgiveness, we take a first step toward restoring our relationship with Him and with others. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).

即使我们在人生中曾犯了种种的错误，然而上帝不会放弃我们，也不会觉得我们无药可救，祂总是让我们有重新开始的机会。寻求上帝的赦免，是与上帝并他人恢复关系的第一步。「我们若认自己的罪，上帝是信实的，是公义的，必要赦免我们的罪，洗净我们一切的不义」（约翰一书1章9节）。

God’s compassion and faithfulness are new every morning (Lam. 3:23), so we can start afresh each day.

每天早晨，上帝的慈爱与信实都是新的（耶利米哀歌3章23节），因此我们每天都可以重新开始。

Thank You for this new day, Lord. Forgive me for doing those things in the past that I shouldn't have done, and for not doing those things that I should have done. Set my feet on Your right path today.

主啊，我为新的一天感谢祢！
求祢赦免我过去做了不该做的事，
以及没有做到该做的事。求祢使我行走在祢的道路上。

Read:Psalm 86:5-15 New International Version (NIV)

5 You, Lord, are forgiving and good,
    abounding in love to all who call to you.
6 Hear my prayer, Lord;
    listen to my cry for mercy.
7 When I am in distress, I call to you,
    because you answer me.

8 Among the gods there is none like you, Lord;
    no deeds can compare with yours.
9 All the nations you have made
    will come and worship before you, Lord;
    they will bring glory to your name.
10 For you are great and do marvelous deeds;
    you alone are God.

11 Teach me your way, Lord,
    that I may rely on your faithfulness;
give me an undivided heart,
    that I may fear your name.
12 I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart;
    I will glorify your name forever.
13 For great is your love toward me;
    you have delivered me from the depths,
    from the realm of the dead.

14 Arrogant foes are attacking me, O God;
    ruthless people are trying to kill me—
    they have no regard for you.
15 But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,
    slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.

诗篇 86:5-15  Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified) (CUVMPS) 

5 主啊，你本为良善，乐意饶恕人，有丰盛的慈爱赐给凡求告你的人。
6 耶和华啊，求你留心听我的祷告，垂听我恳求的声音。
7 我在患难之日要求告你，因为你必应允我。
8 主啊，诸神之中没有可比你的，你的作为也无可比。
9 主啊，你所造的万民都要来敬拜你，他们也要荣耀你的名。
10 因你为大，且行奇妙的事，唯独你是神。
11 耶和华啊，求你将你的道指教我，我要照你的真理行；求你使我专心敬畏你的名。
12 主我的神啊，我要一心称赞你，我要荣耀你的名直到永远。
13 因为你向我发的慈爱是大的，你救了我的灵魂免入极深的阴间。
14 神啊，骄傲的人起来攻击我，又有一党强横的人寻索我的命，他们没有将你放在眼中。
15 主啊，你是有怜悯有恩典的神，不轻易发怒，并有丰盛的慈爱和诚实。