Save me with your Steadfast Love
| “Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love!” Psalm 31:16
The Bible that I read is full of undeserving, gracious, and generous love. God has no obligation to rescue us, but he chooses to do so and takes the initiative to bring it about.
This reminds me of the Hebrew word Hesed. Hesed is God’s steadfast love- the consistent, ever-faithful, relentless, constantly pursuing, lavish, extravagant, unrestrained, one-way love of God. This turns up in the Old Testament over and over, but it’s not just an Old Testament concept. Rather, it points to the fullness of God’s love shown in giving up his Son Jesus Christ.
Thankfully, through Jesus, God is actively reaching into our sin filled chaos lives and taking ahold of us. Thankfully God grasps us through his steadfast love, we are not driven away or lost.
God made a covenant with King David and told him his steadfast love would never leave him, his house or his kingdom. (2Sam7:15-16)
The steadfast love of the Lord never stops or leaves us, his mercies never come to an end. (Lam.3:22)
The Lord has mercy on us in our sin according to his steadfast love and abundant mercy. He blots out all our iniquities. (Psalm51:1)
Praise God for he is good! His steadfast love endures forever and is sufficient for us. (Psalm136:1)
God’s steadfast love surrounds those who trust in him. (Psalm32:10)
The Lord calls himself merciful, gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness to all his people! (Exodus34:6-7)
My prayer for you is that the Lord would continue to direct your hearts in knowing God’s love and Christ’s steadfastness. (2Thes.3:5)
Are there common themes in these verses? Yes! God’s steadfast love for his people is unwavering, it will never leave us. His steadfast love has lasted, and will continue to last, for all eternity. May you know that God’s love will never leave you, it will last forever.
*Note: The verses are summarized
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“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the [m]saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:14-19)
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