Deuteronomy 7: 7-8
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 fewest of all the peoples; but because the Lord loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers....
God chose the Nation of Israel when He chose individual men: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So they weren't even a Nation when God decided to love them and chose them to be His own.
This shows us that God doesn't choose us for anything He sees in us, but only because He has decided to love us and make us His own. Period.
7: 12-14
When they obey, then the Lord God will pour out His lovingkindness and love you and bless you, and multiply you and your fertile ground for your grain and wine and oil, and your herds and flocks. Blessed above all other peoples, with no one barren among people or animals.
If only they would have obeyed and followed all the stipulations, then God would have blessed them more than any other Nation anywhere in the World, so much that the peoples of the other Nations would have wanted to also know and worship their God, the God over all the World.
V. 15
And the Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have seen there; but He will lay them on all who hate you.
This shows that following all the rules and regulations and precepts and laws that God gave them would also be very healthy for them, in having robust good health in not getting sick or miscarrying or having any kind of illness or disease. They didn't know about germs, or the necessity of fully cooking the meats, but if they followed the Lord's commandments, they would be protected from all these unseen dangers.
God is our Maker; He is our Parent, our Father/Mother; He is our Lover, our Spouse, Who loves us passionately as a newlywed husband is enamored with his new bride.
He gave His Law to Israel, to follow every detail in every part of their lives, to live a godly lifestyle. Unlike the others around them, who worshiped their gods with aberrant sexual acts and disgusting sacrifices to eat. Both of which are unhealthy and damaging to our bodies and psyches.
Today our sciences have provided extensive discoveries and knowledge of all kinds of lifestyle choices and foods and practices to keep us healthy. But with all this, we still have sicknesses and diseases and physical conditions that are far from ideal.
Now we are told to think God's thoughts (Philippians 4:5-8), cultivate the fruit of His Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), and do everything we do in love (I Corinthians 13). When we live our lives like this, in accordance with the ways we learn from Scripture, then we can expect to have long, healthy, productive, and prosperous lives.
And we will give Him all the credit, all the glory, for having planned it all to work this way.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
