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Stubborn Love

  Listen to today’s devotional Psalm 106:1-8 Some may wonder why we focus so much on love and talk about it so much. Well, Jesus said the greatest commandments are about love. And scripture makes it clear that God is good and God's steadfast love endures forever. That means love is not merely something God does. Love is the deepest truth about who God is. The Hebrew word translated “steadfast love” is hesed . It is a covenant love that is loyal, merciful, and stubbornly faithful. And when the psalm says this love “endures,” it literally points toward forever. That means God’s never expires. It doesn't disappear even when we disappoint God. As the psalmist tells us, the people had forgotten what God had done. Joining the generations of his faith, he confesses that "we" have sinned. But then comes that one little word: “Yet.” Psalm 106:8 says, “Yet he saved them for his name’s sake.” They forgot God, yet God remembered them. They questioned God, yet God rescued them. Th...