In The Beginning

God hath from the beginning chosen you.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

God’s love did not begin at Calvary. Before the morning stars of the pre-Eden world sang together, before the world was baptized with the first light, before the first blades of tender grass peeped out, God was love.

Turn back to the unwritten pages of countless millennia before God spoke this present earth into existence, when the earth was “without form and void” and the deep, silent darkness of space formed a vast gulf between the brilliance of God’s glory and His cherubim and seraphim, who covered their faces with their wings in reverence toward Him who is high and holy.

Yet lofty as the heavens may be, and pure as God’s holiness glistens, there comes to our ears the word that the majesty of His love was moved for us, and the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world.

God thought of you even then, even before He made the world, even before He made you. It is that God who loves you and longs to have the deepest and closest relationship possible with you.

That is what it was like in the beginning. That is what it is still like today, for God never changes, whether it be in His personality or in His love for you.

Our Father and our God, I cannot fathom Your eternal nature. My little mind cannot grasp Your greatness, Your magnificence, Your everlasting love and care. I bow in praise and adoration, Father, and I thank You for loving me even before I was. Through Jesus, Your eternal Son. Amen.

Billy Graham, Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2010).