We are Christ's Portion
6/27 Reading Portions: Deuteronomy 32; Psalm 119:121-144; Isaiah 59; Matthew 7
6/27 Reading Portions: Deuteronomy 32; Psalm 119:121-144; Isaiah 59; Matthew 7
Deuteronomy 32:9
“But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted heritage.”
EVERMORE
As we’ve considered yesterday, the Lord Jesus Christ is our portion and inheritance (Psa 73:25-26). He is the Treasure of heaven and our utmost desire. Yet from this song of Moses, this little verse goes often unnoticed as we read through the Scriptures day by day and year by year. Nevertheless, we are reminded in several places throughout the Bible— God chose Jacob for Himself and Israel as His peculiar treasure and inheritance (Psa 78:71; 135:4; et al). That we, those redeemed by His grace, are the portion of the Lord, His peculiar treasure and inheritance. We are His desire and delight. This should speak volumes of the Lord’s sacrifice to purchase us as well as His continued work to sanctify us. It’s not because we were worth saving or had any value in and of ourselves. Heavens, no! We were rebellious wretches who offended the infinite and holy God with our loathsome sin and rabid worldliness. We were His weak, sinful, ungodly enemies of God (Rom 8:6, 8, 10), wading in a pool of our own iniquitous filth (Prov 30:12). Yet when God redeemed us by His grace, He saved us with the life and death of the greatest Treasure in the universe for all eternity— Jesus Christ. We are precious because of Christ’s value; and God will do whatever it takes to protect His investment (Isa 54:17; Phil 1:6). Yes, this is truly reason to rejoice evermore in Christ, our Savior! Hallelujah! What a Savior!
The Lord, our God, redeemed us,
His people, as His own;
Therefore, we, in the Lord, must trust
The work He does alone,
Through Jesus, our only Treasure,
And by God’s grace we’re led
By the Spirit without measure
To dine on Living Bread.