THE NEVER-ENDING MERCY OF GOD - by Brent Lokker

Nothing about God’s love is conditional or transactional. He doesn’t love you because you do or don’t do certain things. God loves you because love is His very nature and He created you for the express purpose of including you in his perfect love.

 

There is a word in Hebrew, Hesed, that encompasses all that this love is, but it can’t be adequately expressed in any one-word translation into English. Hesed is a blend of love, loyalty, commitment and mercy. It is love that remains even when the other fails. It is love that commits forever, not because the other earns it, but because the one who loves has made a covenant. It is an active love that manifests in tangible acts of compassion, justice and protection.

 

Hesed is the merciful-steadfast-compassionate-faithful-grace filled-benevolent-covenant-lovingkindness of God!

 

This love can be visualized as God’s mercy-womb that continuously surrounds you. And how long will God be merciful? Is there an expiration date on the tender mercy womb of God?

 

I think you know the answer…

The faithful love of the Lord never ends!
    His mercies never cease.
Great is his faithfulness;
    his mercies begin afresh each morning.

Lamentations 3:22-23 (NLT)

 

By allowing God to comfort and nurture you in his mercy-love womb, only then can you you extend that comfort and nurture to others in the same way as your heavenly Father! And isn’t this the one new (overarching) command Jesus gave to us?

 

“So I give you now a new commandment: Love each other just as much as I have loved you. For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another, everyone will know that you’re my true followers.”

John 13:34-35 (TPT)

 We are extravagantly blessed children of our Savior who showers us with never-ending mercy. He surrounds us with his wrap-around love and reminds us that we have been fashioned in his likeness. This is why Jesus told us with the certainty of his presence running through us like a vine into the branches…

 

“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” – Luke 6:36

 

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