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Amazing Grace: Covenant Faithfulness Through Decades - Reformed (Lamentations 3:22-23)

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Wilberforce experienced God's faithfulness through forty-six years—new mercies each morning of defeat, fresh grace each dawn of disappointment. Reformed theology grounds Lamentations 3:22-23 in covenant: "steadfast love" (chesed) is covenant love; "faithfulness" is covenant fidelity. God's mercy is new because His covenant is eternal; His faithfulness is great because He cannot break promise. Wilberforce trusted covenant faithfulness through decades. God's mercies are covenantally guaranteed; great is His faithfulness through generations.

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Lamentations 3:22-23

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