The Lord loved you — It was his free choice without any cause or motive on your part.
Related Commentaries of Deuteronomy 7:8
Deuteronomy 7:8
8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.