Again and again God chooses individuals or groups of people that they might become God's possession totally.  This runs like a red thread through the sacred history of God's dealings with humankind.  Here we stand before one of the deepest mysteries of God.  Why does God choose this particular people or this nation and not some other people or nation?
Just as with the question of God's justice (see pg. 38 ff.) so it is with this question.  There is no persuasive answer because the question is being raised at the wrong level, namely, the legal/objective level.  The appropriate form of this question is asked from an entirely different perspective by those who are conscious of having been chosen.  They ask, "Why me?"  "How can such an insignificant person as myself be chosen?"  For this form of the question there is a clear answer: "You did not choose me, but I chose you that you should go and bear fruit." (John 15:16)

- Deuteronomy 7:6-8 (Chosen out of love not through merit)

- John 15:16 ("I have chosen you")
- Vienna Genesis - Promise to Abraham  (Meditate picture)