We know God is love and loves all men. However, there are only a few cases in Scripture where His love for an individual is stated. Solomon is one such case. “David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him” (2 Sam. 12:24). The circumstances of this statement are well worth pondering. David had not long before committed the greatest series of sins in his life. What might he now think to receive from God with the woman with whom he had committed adultery and had her husband murdered in an attempt to hide his sin? God had, in His perfect government, already taken the life of the child born of adultery. What could David and Bathsheba expect from God in the future? The human heart so easily thinks that God thinks like we do. We do good ... we expect good; we do bad ... we expect bad. God is sovereign in His love, and it is not limited by man’s failure. And in spite of Solomon’s failures, what satisfaction must God have had to later be able to record, “Solomon loved the Lord” (1 Kings 3:3).