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\u201cLove is\u2026\u201d Fill in the blank. There are lots of different ways we could describe love. Our culture offers an entire palette of them to choose from. \u201cLove\u201d seems to me to refer mainly to heavily subjective feelings and states of mind. That is, love is seen first and foremost as a feeling experienced within a person. While I don\u2019t want to downplay or denigrate the reality of a feeling or an array of feelings which we unobjectionably call \u201clove,\u201d the biblical witness requires us to dig deeper. A key reality often lost in contemporary notions is this: love is loyal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translation troubles: Hesed<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Working through the book of Ruth, we encounter an important Hebrew word at three junctures: Ruth 1.8, 2.20, and 3.10. This word is hesed<\/em>. In general, I try to avoid talking about Hebrew and Greek in non-academic contexts. I find them very interesting and have devoted a great deal of time and effort to understanding them. However, the role of talking about Hebrew and Greek is primarily the role of a scholar. Scholars have done great labor in the languages, culture, and history, so that we can read the Bible and study it in English without having to learn the original languages. That is a blessing of immense proportions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is nothing spiritual or esoteric about using this Hebrew word hesed<\/em>. It just happens to be the case that there is no consistently good way to translate the word into English. It is complex word. Regular translations include \u201clove,\u201d \u201ckindness\u201d, \u201cloving-kindness,\u201d \u201cmercy,\u201d \u201cloyal love,\u201d and so forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fundamental difficulty with rendering hesed<\/em> into English is that it traffics in a different understanding of \u201clove\u201d and \u201ckindness\u201d than we usually use. Consider these verses from Psalm 136 (the repeated refrain throughout the psalm uses this word hesed<\/em>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good. His love endures forever<\/em>.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This one is easy. We can square enduring love with goodness. But as the Psalm continues, we run into problems with using \u201clove.\u201d Consider a few different acts of God which are also attributed as examples of \u201chis hesed<\/em> endures forever\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
10 to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt\u2014His love endures forever.<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
15 [he] swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea\u2014His love endures forever.<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
18 [he] killed mighty kings\u2014His love endures forever.<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
These are a little harder to fit into our idea of love and mercy. How does God killing people fit into his \u201cloving-kindness\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love is\u2026loyal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Throughout this entire Pslam it is God\u2019s hesed<\/em> that is under view. It quickly becomes clear that hesed<\/em> is concerned with something which goes beyond our normal usage of the terms \u201clove\u201d and \u201cmercy.\u201d One scholar puts it this way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHesed<\/em>, however, describes a mutual relationship between man and man or between man and God. Translating it as \u201cmercy,\u201d \u201ccompassion,\u201d or \u201clove\u201d destroys the concept of mutuality.\u201d<\/p>Harold Kamsler, “Hesed – Mercy or Loyalty?”<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
This scholar highlights a tendency in our cultural context of understanding love and mercy as one-way actions: I love, she shows mercy, he is full of loving-kindness. Hesed<\/em>, by contrast, has a strong notion of inter-connectedness. A strong notion of loyalty. A strong notion of relational obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
 Here is an expansive definition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHesed<\/em> expresses, essentially, faithfulness and loyal conduct within the context of a relationship; it is an inward commitment<\/strong> and disposition<\/strong> of goodwill<\/strong> together with its outward<\/strong> expression<\/strong> in dutiful<\/strong> and compassionate<\/strong> action. The precise nature of that action depends upon the context, the relationship and also upon the relative positions and abilities of parties within that relationship.\u201d<\/p>Robin Routledge, “Hesed as Obligation: A Re-Examination”<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s a mouthful. But helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My personal favorite quick and easy way to try to represent this is \u201cloyal love,\u201d but even that is not entirely satisfying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The duty of love<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What does duty have to do with love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We might put it this way: love (in this hesed<\/em> sense) is bounded within certain limits. This is not a bad thing. I love my family, for instance. I don\u2019t love anyone in Kazakhstan. Not that I am opposed to anyone in Kazakhstan. I\u2019m sure there are many nice people there who I could learn to love. But I have no connection, no commitment to anyone there. I can love them only in a very abstract sense of general benevolence. But I go home and sit with my wife and kids and we eat together, play together, fight together, laugh together, and all those things. We have a commitment to one another and within the boundaries of the commitment, love of a deep and profound kind flows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The difference is that there is no relational commitment in my general benevolence towards people in Kazakhstan, but there is commitment undergirding our family relationships. Within my family, hesed<\/em> exists and flows out in acts of care and concern for each other. The relational context is the matrix in which loyal-love has existence. A relationship is like the boundary lines within which hesed<\/em> is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God\u2019s Hesed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
This notion of hesed <\/em>is important in Scripture. God is a God of love, yet it is a bounded love. Not bounded in the sense of limited, as though God ever runs out of love to give but bounded in the sense of it covers a certain area, if you will. Those outside of that \u201carea\u201d experience God\u2019s general benevolence\u2014\u201che causes the rain to fall on the just and unjust\u201d\u2014but not the deep and profound love, the hesed<\/em>. That love flows within the bounds of relationship: his covenant, his people, those who have come to \u201clive in the area of God\u2019s love,\u201d as it were. And within the bounds of this love, God\u2019s love is not only a good thing, but a duty, a loyal thing. God fully commits himself to those who are within this \u201carea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bible calls this \u201carea\u201d of God\u2019s love many things: the kingdom of God, salvation, eternal life, being in Christ. What unites them is the undergirding reality that God fully and freely commits himself to any and all who come into this area of his love. And he commits to being for them and not against them, to be the giver of joy, to fill up their hopes\u2026and all these things even when they fail to be as they should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God holds up his loyal love<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
That last sentence is important. God remains faithful to his hesed<\/em>, his covenant love, even when we don\u2019t. That is part of why it is so important to keep a sense of duty and loyalty in our notion of love. Even when people in my family make me angry, or I make them angry, we continue in love. Not because we necessarily are happy with each other at the moment. But because we have loyal-love, dutiful love, love which finds its strength and existence in our relationship rather than in the transient nature of our feelings at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gold standard of this kind of hesed<\/em>, loyal-love, is God reaching out to humanity in various promises (covenants). In these promises, God makes a commitment to humanity. The commitment sets the boundaries in which hesed<\/em> exists. Those who enter in get to receive the endless bounty of God\u2019s loyal-love\u2026even when we fail to be loyal. Why? Because God\u2019s loyalty to his commitments never runs out. While anger and frustration are not foreign to God in his dealings with humanity, he does not cease to be full of loyal-love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This calls for praise! Praise God that his love is loyal to the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This calls for emulation: \u201cTherefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us\u201d (Ephesian 5.1-2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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