The nation of Israel was chosen as God’s people by His grace and His grace alone. It wasn’t because the children of Israel were so pleasant and lovely, in fact God calls them a stiff necked and stubborn people all throughout the Old Testament! God by His grace, His unmerited and unearned favor… gave the Israelites their land and blessed them as His people. If you have received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, then you have been given this salvation by God’s grace because you didn’t earn it as well. Come to God by faith because of His grace, never try to earn it!