Psalm 116:1-2 I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

I can understand why you might love someone who listens to you and provides for you, but I see this as a selfish type of love. Eros is a selfish type of love, it certainly isn’t agape love. Then I remembered that at the time of this psalm Christ had not died for our sins. The Cross of Christ is the game changer.

Only because of the Cross of Christ do we have access to all the promises made to us. Up until that day everything related to God’s promises towards mankind was performance based. All those promises are predicated on the if factor. “If you will I will, if you do not….”

Deuteronomy 7:12-14  Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

And did they hear them, keep them and do those commandments?

Isaiah 65:12  Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.