“The Lord did not set his heart on you… because you more numerous than other nations…. Rather, it was simply that the Lord loves you.”
Simply? The why of God’s love is life’s deepest mystery. It is the Great Unanswered Question – perhaps unanswerable through eternity – the sacred meditation of every believer, and the thread that runs through so many hymns of the church: “How can it be, how can it be – that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?”
