The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose
you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of
all people: But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which
he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty
hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh
king of Egypt. –
Deuteronomy 7.7-8
Why did God love His people in the Old Testament? Why
does God love His people today? Why does God love who He loves?
From this passage we get the principle that God did
not love us because of who we are. He did not love Israel because they were the
strongest that God loved them. God loved them simply because He loved them and
because He loved them He delivered them and redeemed them.
Though the specifics are different the basic principle
is the same for us. We did nothing to get God to love us. He didn’t love us
because we first loved Him. Indeed we love Him because He first loved us.
God took the first step when He loved Israel. He did
the same for us. He loved us while we were still in our sin. Apart from His
love we would never have loved Him first and apart from His love we would never
have our redemption. We are where we are because He loved us.
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