steadfast love and faithfulness

These two ideas/fruits are found over and over again throughout God's Word. Particularly in the Psalms (though they bear similarity to the Epistle's "grace and peace"), they are used to describe God's character. Unless we wrap our arms--at least open them up--around these traits, we cannot know God. He IS faithfulness. He keeps His promises and covenants. He cannot be unfaithful. Likewise He is steadfast love...not temporary love or floundering love, but hard-core, purposeful love. Love that never fails because it is perfect. Love as a means and an end. These words humble any sensible man, yet they are also the very words of hope to cling to with every breath we take.