Read: Deuteronomy 7:6-9
It is because the LORD loves you. (v. 8)
I have always loved grandfather clocks. I love listening to the chimed melody every fifteen minutes on the hour throughout the day. When I graduated from college, my father built me a beautiful grandfather clock. This clock is one of my treasured possessions. I treasure it because my father built this gift out of his great love for me.
God’s people were his treasured possession. Our text tells us that he chose the Israelites out of all the nations on the earth. He said, “It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers” (vv. 7-8). Because of God’s promise to Abraham and his descendants, we also are Abraham’s children grafted into this covenant of love (see Romans 11). We are his treasured possession.
It’s easy not to feel treasured. We often allow negative thoughts about ourselves to drown out God’s whispers of love. It’s easy to doubt that he loves us when we experience such things as a job loss, a cancer diagnosis, the loss of a loved one, or depression. But claim this truth: you are God’s treasured possession. He loves you!
As you pray, may you know in your heart that you are the God’s treasured possession.
About the Author
Nancy Boote
Nancy Boote, an ordained minister in the Reformed Church of America, lives in Holland, Michigan, with her husband.
