Because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed.
His compassions never fail. They are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3, 22-23
Courage is not gathered in a single moment.
It's not a single brave decision that just changes everything and then you're done with it forever.
It's a daily practice and it's a posture that we return to again and again.
And that's actually really good news because if courage were a one-time event,
we would probably try to hoard it away.
But God doesn't work that way.
His compassions are new every morning, never recycled, not left over from last week, fresh.
Today's courage comes from today's portion of His faithfulness,
which is immeasurable.
That means you don't need to stockpile courage for tomorrow.
You don't need to hoard it away for your next hard circumstance.
You never have to worry if you'll have enough for next month.
You just need enough for today and He's already provided it.
The same God who was faithful to you this morning will be faithful again tomorrow morning.
And I think this is what cultivating courage really looks like.
It's not one dramatic leap.
It's a thousand small decisions to trust Him today, to speak truth to your soul today,
to rest in His presence today.
And then when you wake up tomorrow, you do it again.
And never from your own striving but because He is faithful every single day.