[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] The Object of God's Love by Max Lucado

[Maggie Stringer]

Scripture employs an artillery of terms for *love*, each one calibrated to
reach a different target. Consider the one Moses used with his followers in
Deuteronomy 10:15: “The LORD chose your ancestors as the objects of his
love.” What the Hebrews heard in their language was this: “The LORD binds
himself to his people.” Binds is the word *hasaq*, and it speaks of a
tethered love, a love attached to something or someone. Harnessed. The
strap serves two functions, yanking and claiming. Like yanking your child
out of trouble and, in doing so, to proclaim, “Yes, he is as wild as a
banshee. But he’s mine.”

In this case, God chained himself to Israel. God loves Israel—and the rest
of us—because he chooses to do so. God’s love is the love that won’t let go
of the *object *of his love.


Maggie Stringer
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