The Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all nations – as it is today. (Deuteronomy 10:15)
It is one thing to know that God chose to create us and to create us in His image. It is another thing altogether to know that we are also objects of His Almighty Affection. From the opening of Scripture to the very last word, all of it demonstrates just how much God loves and cares for us. God so loved the world that He sent His only Son Jesus to save it from sin. And the love of God is not dependent upon us. God did not love us because we were lovable. God did not love us because we were worthy of His love. God did not love us because we did anything to earn or deserve it. God simply chose to love us and that love is as unconditional as it is complete. God will never love us anymore and God will never love us any less. His love is fixed, full, and final.
Think about it this way: God created you so He could shower His love upon you. You can read this word because God loves you. You are alive right now because God loves you. And when you breathe your last, God will love you in eternity just the same as He loves you today. Because of the sinless life, sacrificial death, and supernatural resurrection of Jesus, God has made a way for us to be welcomed into an eternal and personal relationship with Him, simply by trusting in what Jesus has done for us as both our Savior and our Lord.
Because God’s love for you is based upon His character and not your conduct, you are an object of His affection moment by moment each and every day. No human mind can even begin to “grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ” (Ephesians 3:18). Remember, on this side of glory, we get only a taste of what it means to be the object of God’s Almighty Affection. When we reach the other side, we will, for the very first time, experience the end of all sin, sickness, sorrow, and the storms of life. We will be in eternal bliss with our Lord Jesus and all the saints of God.
In The Last Battle, by C. S. Lewis, he says this about the four siblings, Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter, who went through the wardrobe and into Narnia, “All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.” That is the future that awaits all those who have Jesus as Savior and Lord of their lives as objects of God’s Almighty Affection.
This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN!
Grace for the Race 