"Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength."
{Deuteronomy 4:37} (NIV)
There is no other god like our God! No other god has ever ripped a nation by miraculous force out of the midst of another nation. No other god has ever spoken to His people with an audible voice out of a mighty fire, or revealed Himself, His power and His character like the LORD God did for His people. No other god has ever led His nation to a land occupied in force by a group of prosperous nations, and then miraculously wiped out those nations and given His nation their land. All other so-called gods, can’t even come close to what the LORD God Almighty has done.
This amazing passage does more than describe what He has done, for it also gives the reason for His actions. The reason is LOVE! An amazing eternal LOVE for Abram, Isaac and Jacob that moved Him to act on their descendants behalf! This LORD has not changed. It was LOVE that caused Him to reveal His glory through the incarnation of the Eternal Word. It was LOVE that caused Him to send His Son to die in our place. It is LOVE that causes Him to rip our souls out of the clutches of the kingdom of darkness. It is LOVE that causes Him to seal us with His Spirit and continually speak to us and cause us to live our lives in true freedom. It is LOVE that will cause Him to come in power and destroy the evil forces and the wicked people, cleanse the earth and give us the land to prosper in.
O how He loves you and me!
The Love of God, Casting Crowns, via YouTube
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