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In 1999, a song was released by the pop-rock group Savage Garden. It was called “I Knew I Loved You,” and it played on every teenager’s radio at least 10 million times that year.

I remember hearing that song and thinking, “How is that even possible? How can you love someone you’ve never even met? Wouldn’t you have to know their personality, their likes and dislikes, and see their character before you could decide if you loved them?”

But the thought that someone could love you without knowing all those things, without knowing all the ways you’ve messed up or the harsh words you’ve spoken, is kind of amazing, isn’t it?

Could someone love you in spite of your failures, both past and future? Could someone love you knowing you might not love them back? Could someone love you from the very beginning?

Is that even possible?

With God, yes.

2 Thessalonians 2:13–17

*“But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.*

*Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.*

*Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.”*

God loved us before…

The list is endless.

From the beginning, before we were ever formed, before we ever breathed our first breath, God loved us.

God is all-knowing. He knows every detail about us. He knows what’s in our hearts and minds, and He knows the choices we will make. And yet, He still allows us the free will to make those choices.

He would have to be a pretty powerful God to love someone like me, knowing all the mistakes I would make.

And He is.

God is all-powerful, and there is nothing too big for Him.

For His amazing grace, His never-ending love, and His willingness to be the substitute for my sin, I am eternally grateful.

Because He loved me before He met me. And He still does.

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