Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day. (Deuteronomy 10:14,15 ESV)
Unconditional Love
The kind of love we humans are used to is conditional love. We stop loving a spouse, often, when they are cruel, unfaithful, or unlovely. We stop loving parents when they utterly fail us. We stop loving a child when the disappointment becomes overwhelming.
Even when we know we should continue to love, sometimes we do not.
God’s love of His people, though, is absolutely unconditional.
No matter our sin, He forgives. No matter our rebellions, He welcomes. No matter our selfishness, He gives.
But only because God sent Jesus.
The Lord loves us because of Jesus.
The Lord forgives us because of Jesus.
The Lord welcomes us because of Jesus.
The Lord gives to us because of Jesus.
JESUS is the condition for God’s love.
And that is a most necessary thing.