Why do I love God?

So why do I love God?  John tells us it is simply because He first loved us and by His grace we responded to that love.  So often today we find people thinking that God loves them because they are special.  Moses made that very clear to the Israelites that there was no way that they were special.  God loved them because He loved them.  He set His love on them so that they could show to the rest of the world that God does love them.  However, they failed to do that.  They failed because they thought that God loved them because they were special and the other people were not.  If we think that we are loved because of who we are and not who God is then we will fail to show His love to the rest of the world.