But the hesed-love of the Lord chooses you because He can’t not choose to be with you. Chosenness isn’t about a life of perfectness but a life of withness. It’s true that the lines of His holy love letter to us often translate hesed as “lovingkindness,” a word literally invented in an attempt to translate the all-encompassing Hebrew word hesed,* but “loving-kindness” apparently doesn’t fully convey how hesed is an entirely different stratosphere of love. Used nearly 250 times in Scripture, in such a powerful manner that some theologians have suggested it may be the most important word in
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