It’s disarming. God goes to all the trouble of bringing the people out of Egypt, performing miracles and providing for them all along the way, leads them through the wilderness, and gives them this beautiful law, a torah to let them know how to live and love each other, and then at this point in the account He reveals His awareness that the people would not be faithful to Him after they were safe and settled in the blessings He provided. The Lord knew this all along, yet He still went to all the trouble.
Who can understand this? Who would marry himself to a woman he knew beforehand would be unfaithful to him?
At times like this it’s hard to know whether to be encouraged or just plain baffled. This much is clear: God works to make a habitation with mankind for His own sake, not because man is deserving or righteous or faithful.
The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ~ Deuteronomy 7:7, 8
...but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the LORD your God loves you. ~ Deuteronomy 23:5
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