What Is So Special about Zion?

Psalm 87:2 (KJV) The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

(Proverbs 6 also read)

I must confess, I do not know.  I have no grasp of why the Creator of the galaxies should have great affection for a hill in the Middle East.

It can’t be inherent value.  I don’t know of anything about Mount Zion that makes it more worthy than any other mountain.

It must be because He chose it.  It is special because He declared it so, similar to the place of Israel as His special people.  He makes it clear that they were not chosen because they were noble and more deserving.  It may simply be that someplace had to be chosen and this is it.  I remember my first guitar.  Looking back it was just a basic, economy version but it was special in my eyes.  It had, and still has, a name.  It is still living in my brother’s house.  It was special because it was mine.

So?  We are also special.  It isn’t because we are more deserving than Joe Pagan who lives next door.  It is because we are His.