Showing posts with label hesed; love; faithfulness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hesed; love; faithfulness. Show all posts

Sunday, November 29, 2009

How God Loves Us


Hesed.

The Hebrew word is used in the Old Testament to represent the kind of faithful, covenant love between God and His chosen people.

A Hasidic Jewish commentator defines hesed as:

“a consistent,ever-faithful,relentless,constantly-pursuing,lavish,extravagant,unrestrained,furious love.”

How awesome.

I want to embrace all this entails.

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