Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise You. Psalms 63:3

 

(Hesed.. Lovingkindness)

Make your face shine on your servant; / save me in your steadfast [hesed-attachment] love. — Psalm 31:16 

But I have trusted in your steadfast [hesed-love]; / my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. — Psalm 13:5 

'Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing [hesed-love] for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,' says the Lord, who has compassion on you. — Isaiah 54:10

*This is actual comfort that traces your bruises and wounds with the slowest, tender assurance that you are going to be more than all right. You can feel this presence like a certain nurturing that girds your every breath, every step, every heartbeat. The assurance that you seek, the chosenness that you want, the grace that you crave, the hope that you need

The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in [hesed] and faithfulness, maintaining [hesed] to thousands. — Exodus 34:6-7

Help me, Lord my God; / save me according to your [hesed-attachment] unfailing love. — Psalm 109:26

*Hush, hurting soul, don’t fear your tears. You can hug your knees and feel yourself contained and safe within the arms of God and trust:

*You are chosen not because of any of your choices but because the very God chooses you. No matter how rejected you feel, you are chosen for hesed-attachment because no matter how it may seem, what you want most deeply is to be deeply wanted as a person, valued and needed, seen and safe and known. This is the way of hesed; this is the way our Father heals our trauma. He will make a way through to what we need the most.

Turn, Lord, and deliver me; / save me because of Your unfailing [hesed-attachment] love. — Psalm 6:4

For His hesed-lovingkindness “is great toward us” (Psalm 117:2 NKJV). His “lovingkindness is better than life” (Psalm 63:3 NKJV).

His hesed-lovingkindness is better than every kind of dream, or hope — or even life itself.

I will be glad and rejoice in Your [hesed-attachment] love,
for You saw my affliction
and knew the anguish of my soul. — Psalm 31:7

*And the voice of the Spirit, hesed-joined to the very chambers of the heart, beats sure:  Here I am. Here I am. All the universe echoing: I AM. I AM. I AM.

Every person the Father gives me eventually comes running to me. And once that person is with me, I hold on and don’t let go. — John 6:37-38 MSG

Behind every kind act of God is the hesed-lovingkindness of God.

Thank the miracle-working God, / His [hesed-attachment] love never quits. — Psalm 136:4 MSG

*selected.. Waymaker(Ann Voskamp)