What a sweet title: "My people!" What a thrilling revelation: "Their God!" How much meaning is packed into those two words, "My people!"

Here is something special. The whole world belongs to God. The heavens—even the highest heavens—are the Lord's, and he reigns over all humanity. But to those he has chosen, those he has purchased for himself, he says what he says to no one else: "My people."

In this word there is ownership. In a special manner, "the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." All the nations of earth are his. The whole world lies in his power. Yet his people, his chosen ones, are 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 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 indentures 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 favor toward you. You are the object of his choice, accepted in his beloved Son.