His Possession (This Week's Devotion from 'Look Unto Me')

I will be their God, and they will be my people. 2 Corinthians 6:16

From the pen of Charles Spurgeon:

What a wonderful name: "My people"! What an uplifting revelation: "Their God"! There is a great deal of meaning--something very special--expressed in the two words: "My people."
"To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it" (Deut. 10:14), and He reigns among "the children of men" (Ps. 21:10 KJV). Yet it is only those whom He has chosen and purchased for Himself--and no one else--whom He calls "My people." These words signify the idea of ownership and a special relationship, "For the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance" (Deut. 32:9).

All the nations of the earth are His and the entire world is in His control, yet they are His people, His chosen. More than that, they are His possession, for He has done more for them than anyone else, having "bought [them] with his own blood" (Acts. 20:28). He has brought them to Himself and focused His heart of affection on them, for He has loved them "with an everlasting love" (Jer. 31:3)--a love "many waters cannot quench" (Song 8:7), and one the passage of time will never diminish even to the least degree.

Dear friend, can you, by faith, see yourself among His people? Can you look to heaven and say, "'My Lord and my God' (John 20:28)--mine because of the intimate relationship that entitles me to call You Father; mine because of the holy fellowship I have with You, to my delight, when you are pleased to reveal Yourself to me--something You never do with those of the world"?
Can you read His inspired Word and find the certificate of your salvation? Can you read your name written in His precious blood? Can you, by humble faith, take hold of Jesus' robe, and say, "My Christ"?

If you can, then God calls you and others like you: "My people." For, if God is your God and Christ is your Christ, the Lord has a special individual affinity toward you. You are the object of His choosing and have been "accepted in [His] beloved" Son (Eph. 1:6 KJV).

From the pen of Jim Reimann:

Yes, we belong to Christ. Yet what seems even more amazing is that we have been made full-fledged members of His family. We are His children!

The Scriptures teach that believers are adopted children of Abraham. Thus, we are not God's physical children, but His spiritual children, for "it is not the natural children who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham's offspring" (Rom. 9:8). "Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham" (Gal. 3:7).
"The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory" (Rom. 8:16-17).

As His child, "all things are yours, whether ... the world or life or death or the present or the future--all are yours, and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's" (1 Cor. 3:21-23 ESV).

What an amazing Savior is ours!

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