The Heart of Our Electing God

While you are now increasingly interested in theology and doctrine, don't forget that you were loved into the kingdom of God. And such love is closer to the heart of our gracious, electing God than any cool, intellectual grasp of the details of predestination.

--a letter to a young convert to the Reformed tradition, in James Smith, Letters to a Young Calvinist (Brazos, 2010), 78; emphasis original