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Malachi 1:2

‘I have loved you, saith the Lord’

Read Isaiah 49:1-26

In Ephesians 1:3-5, we see a clear picture of God exercising his love sovereignly. ‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.’ It was in love that God the Father predestined his chosen ones unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, ‘according’ according to what? According to some good thing he saw in them? According to some decision they would make? According to some foreseen merit of their own? No. According to what he foresaw they would become? No. Listen to the carefully worded answer of the Holy Spirit. God chose his own elect and predestined us, ‘according to the good pleasure of his will’.

God loves his own elect personally, with an everlasting love. He says, ‘Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee’ (Jeremiah 31:3). God’s love for his own elect, like God himself, is immutable. It never changes. Those whom God loves will never become the objects of his anger, wrath and vengeance. God’s love for his own elect is persevering. He loved us before we fell in Adam and after we fell. He loved us before Christ came to redeem us. He loved us throughout the days of our rebellion and unbelief’. He loved us when we hated him. He loved us before we were regenerated by the power of his Spirit and made to love him. And though we sin against him continually, he loves his own still. He will never cease to cherish his own. Are you one of those whom God loves with an everlasting love? If so, you should rejoice in God’s sovereign exercise of his love towards you.

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