God’s love is actively in motion in your life. In your moment of distress, God’s love does not waver; even when others fail to understand your distress.
“I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,
Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love!
Blessed be the Lord, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city.” (Psalm 31:7, 16, 21 ESV)
The phrase “steadfast love” used in these verses is the term unfailing love in the NLT, and is translated as loving kindness, mercy and goodness in the KJV.
I like the term steadfast love, because it shows love in motion. Unfailing love gives the confidence that God’s love does not run out, loving kindness lets us know that God’s love is tender towards us when our circumstances are not, but STEADFAST LOVE is a love that is actively and relentlessly involved in my situation in a way that is not dependent on my lack, but in God’s abundance!
The Hebrew word used here is CHECED. In Gesenius’s Lexicon it is defined as love that is expressed with zeal towards someone. If that person is in distress, that love does not become passive, but it is instead actively in pursuit with mercy, kindness, and understanding of the situation.
The first time this word is used in the Bible is when Lot was escaping for his life from Sodom. The city was going to be destroyed behind him, but the hills were to high in front of him. It is here we see God’s steadfast love at work. God did not just save His life, but he provided refuge for Him as Lot acknowledged that his trust was in God (Genesis 19:19-21).
The result of God’s steadfast love is our complete surrender. This surrender is identified in a person who acknowledges that they are too insufficient to solve the puzzle of their circumstances, so they might as well step out of the way and allow God’s unfailing, steadfast, loving kindness come in a rescue them in his unlimited abundance of understanding and resources.
Thank God for His STEADFAST LOVE!








