Deuteronomy 10:14-15 To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it. Yet the Lord set His affection on your ancestors and loved them, (The Lord reminds His people that even though they had often failed Him, that even though, as God, He could have chosen any of the many peoples on the earth, instead, He had elected to prefer and favor them. Though He could have chosen anyone, He chose these particular people. In the Hebrew, the phrase set His affection means the Lord clings to, delights in, and has joined Himself to them. He has delightfully attached and connected Himself to this people.) and He chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today. (The Lord declares to us still today that He has set His affection on us,
that our names are placed in His registry of those whom He has chosen.
He makes us today His special and chosen people in whom He delights.
He is especially fond of us. He has spread His banner of love over us.
Even though He could have chosen others, He proclaims His delight in us. He reminds us today that He has attached Himself to us, that He has wondrously and magnificently joined Himself to us,
and that He calls us by His Name and that we belong to Him.)
