HESED


As my heart leaned into God yesterday, my Abba King impressed an analogy into my mind. I have pondered it since and thought about it as I've gone about my day today.
Sometimes it seems the field of bitterness and anger seems so easy to work, ready at a moments notice to spring up a harvest of its dark and overpowering produce.
At those times it seems as if the field of love, mercy, and grace is full of thistles and stones, to difficult to work and almost impossible to gain any harvest.
This God has made clear is a lie straight from Satan himself.
Even a hand full of harvest from the latter field is better than a truck load of harvest from the first. With God beside me, His hands deep in the soil with me, even the smallest of harvests feed thousands. The full and plentiful harvest from the field of bitterness and anger will leave even just one starving.
Someone once said unforgiveness is like taking a poison and waiting for your enemy to die. Powerful words I will not soon forget.
Greeks call unconditional love, agape. In Hebrew there is a word that love is only a mere part of.
HESED: the word used for kindness in the book of Ruth; steadfast covenant commitment marked by or full of love, mercy, grace, kindness, goodness, benevolence,loyalty, a covenant faithfulness
At no time in my life has my God shown me anything less than hesed. Though my sin meant the sacrifice of His own Son, He still has shown me no less than hesed. So it is my humble and fervent desire that this gift of hesed He has given me be the outpouring of my heart to any and everyone I encounter in my life. I realize that isn't easy. I will want to harvest the easier field but I choose at every step to keep my feet firm in the field next to my Jesus and be thankful that when I do stray, He is always, ALWAYS ready and waiting for my return.
Therefore, I urge you brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship. So, no longer conform to the pattern of this age but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may be able to discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Romans 12:1-2

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