Why Does God Love Us?

The Lord did not set his heart on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations! Rather, it was simply that the Lord loves you, and he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the Lord rescued you with such a strong hand from your slavery and from the oppressive hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 7:7-8 

 

There is a question I hear quite a lot during the Holiday Season, "How could God possibly love ME?"  There's the long answer, then there's the short answer.  The short answer is: Because God chose to.  Well, that answer brings more questions than comfort, so the longer answer might suffice.

 

When God created Adam and Eve, it was not for His benefit it was for their benefit.  And God Loved them!  He loved them so much that He came to the Garden in the evenings just to walk and talk with them.  Yet even when Adam and Eve deliberately disobeyed Him, God still came to talk with them.  Granted He reminded them that they had done wrong and that there would be consequences to their deliberate choice to disobey.  Yet even then, He gave them a way to survive!  Even when Cain killed Abel, God marked Cain so that no one would harm him.

 

All through History we see God showing us His love over and over, especially when we don't deserve it.  God loves us, not because of anything we do or don't do!  God loves us because He CHOOSES to love us.

 

Let me put it a different way, find a clover and tell that clover "I no longer like you as a clover, thus I dub the a Shrubbery!" And see what happens.  I'll wait.....go ahead.  Guess what, the only one who could force us to change understands that forced change will be resented.  But when change comes by choice, it is welcomed.  Therefore, when we Accept God's love, we make changes because we want to show God that we love Him in return.

 

Listen to the words of God's love and let them wash over you bringing you the desire to love Him in return.