READ Malachi 1 COMMENTARY: : 2        I have loved you, says the LORD. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? Says the LORD; yet I loved Jacob. (157 “loved” [’ahab] means to endear, to have great affection, have loyalty toward, to breath after, or have an affection toward someone you have a close relationship with.) DEVOTION:  The LORD is comparing HIS relationship between Jacob and Esau. Remember that Esau was the firstborn and older brother of Jacob. The LORD chose Jacob over Esau. The LORD can choose one person over another as HE knows the beginning from the end. HE knows who is going to follow HIM and who is not because HE doesn’t live in time. The doctrine of Election is a very hard doctrine to explain and understand fully when it relates to…