2 Corinthians 6:16

What a sweet title: “My people!” What a cheering revelation: “Their God!” How much meaning is contained in those two words, “My people!” Here is speciality. The whole world is God's; the heaven, even the heaven of heavens, is the Lord's, and he reigns among the children of men; but of those whom he has chosen, whom he has purchased for himself, he says what he does not say of others—“My people.” In this word, there is the idea of proprietorship.

In a special manner, the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. All the nations upon earth are his; the whole world is in his power; yet his people, his chosen, are more especially his possession. For he has done more for them than for others: he has bought them with his blood; he has brought them near to himself; he has set his great heart upon them; he has loved them with an everlasting love, a love that many waters cannot quench, and that the revolutions of time will never suffice in the least degree to diminish.

Dear friends, can you, by faith, see yourselves in that number? Can you look up to heaven and say, “My Lord and my God: mine by that sweet relationship that entitles me to call You Father; mine by that hallowed fellowship that I delight to hold with You when You are pleased to manifest Yourself to me as You do not to the world?” Can you read the Book of Inspiration and find there the title deeds of your salvation?

Can you read your title written in precious blood? Can you, by humble faith, lay hold of Jesus’ garments and say, “My Christ”? If you can, then God says of you, and of others like you, “My people”; for, if God is your God, and Christ is your Christ, the Lord has a special, peculiar favour toward you; you are the object of his choice, accepted in his beloved Son.