May 5 Morning Devotional | My People | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning, May 5 | “I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” —2 Corinthians 6:16 (NASB)

This Evening's Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (NASB)

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said,
“I will dwell in them and walk among them;
And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord.
“And do not touch what is unclean;
And I will welcome you.
And I will be a father to you,
And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”
Says the Lord Almighty.

Devotional Video Transcript:

What a sweet title: “My people!” What a cheering revelation: “Their God!” How much meaning is couched in those two words, “My people!”

Here is specialty. 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 to 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.” (Deuteronomy 32:9) All the nations upon earth are his; the whole world is in his power; yet are his people, his chosen, more especially his possession; for he has done more for them than 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 which many waters cannot quench, and which the revolutions of time shall 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 which entitles me to call you Father; mine by that hallowed fellowship which I delight to hold with you when you are pleased to manifest yourself unto me as you do not unto the world?” Can you read the Book of Inspiration, the Bible, and find there the guarantee 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 your Christ, the Lord has a special, peculiar favor to you; you are the object of his choice, accepted in his beloved Son.

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