Psalm 25 – God’s Love Can’t Stop
Remember, Lord, your compassion and your faithful love, for they have existed from antiquity. (Psalms 25:6)
The word for “faithful love” is the ultra-significant Hebrew word hesed. It’s one of those words in the Bible that you just can’t translate with one word. It means something like “a covenant of loyalty, faithfulness, kindness, goodness, mercy, and love.” And David says it’s existed from antiquity. God’s loved you since the foundation of the world, and there’s nothing you can do to make him stop loving you.
As Jeremiah says, “Because of the Lord’s faithful (“hesed”) love we do not perish, for his mercies never end. They are new every morning” (Lam. 3:22-23) His mercies never end. That’s why they’re plural. They keep rolling in, like the waves in Waikiki. It could be a lake everywhere else on the island, but there’s always at least knee-high waves in Waikiki. God’s mercies keep coming every morning, which means they’ll never run out. You can never use them up!