Romantic Love & God's Love
The classic line in the literature of romance novels is "our eyes met across a crowded room". A cliché but as is usually the case with clichés it reveals a great truth in the way we see love else it wouldn't have become overused.
That line compactly expresses a chief truth about romantic love: exclusivity. "Across" suggests a geographical distance was overcome, while "crowded" suggests you were picked from among many. "Our eyes met across an empty room" shows little exclusivity or effort on the couple's part. The same goes for: "our eyes met because you were the closest one to me in a crowded room".
God understands that's the way we think of love so he condescended to speak to us that way over the course of salvation history. Adam knew his specialness; out of all the animals on the earth God singled him out. Then God singled out a family (Noah), a clan (Abraham), a nation (David's kingdom) until with Christ every single person is the object of God's eyes "across a crowded room". We still may not have a good understanding it but in reading the Scriptures we can see God's clear attempt to communicate that great Truth to us.
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