Hesed!!

I have been grappling with the meaning of hesed through all these days and you might want to expect some good posts on related topics next week. For now I want to leave you with a meaningful definition of God's hesed to meditate upon.
“It is a covenant word that refers to the faithfulness or loyal love that binds two parties together in covenant. When a person shows hesed to another, he is not motivated merely by legal obligation but by an inner loyalty which arises out of the relationship itself. Such covenant love has the quality of constancy, firmness, steadfastness."
God has bound himself to us with this hesed!! What a privilege to be wedded to the Most High God! What a privilege that we are his Bride!

- quote from Anderson Bernhard W., The Living World of the Old Testament, Longman Group Ltd., London, 1971. pg. 248