God Loves You

Now that may seem obvious to people today.  Isn't it God's job to love us?  Why shouldn't He love us, after all we are lovable. 
It may come as a surprise to us to learn that the first time that we read that God loves us in the Bible is in the fourth chapter of the fifth book.  Moses says in Deuteronomy 4:37, "Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength."  That was the first time in the Bible that we read that God loved people. 
Why did God love them?  Was it because they were lovable?  Was it because of what they could do for God?  Again Moses says, "The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt." Deuteronomy 7:7,8
So there you have it, God loves you because He loves you and for no other reason.