We are the Lords!

posted on 15 November 2010 | posted in Point to ponder | ( 0 ) Comments

Read up on what happened before you were born; dig into the past, understand your roots. Ask your parents what it was like before you were born; ask the old-ones, they'll tell you a thing or two. When the High God gave the nations their stake, gave them their place on Earth, He put each of the peoples within boundaries under the care of divine guardians. But God himself took charge of his people, Deuteronomy 32:7-8 (Message)

How are we his?

By his own sovereign choice.
He chose us, and set his love upon us. He did altogether apart from any goodness in us at the time, or any goodness which he anticipated in us. He had mercy on whom he would have mercy, and ordained us as chosen company for eternal life; therefore, we are his by his unconstrained election.

We are not only his by choice, but by purchase.
He has bought and paid for us, the last cent has been paid! So there is no dispute of his. He did not pay with corruptible things, as with silver and gold, but with the precious blood of the Jesus Christ, we have been fully redeemed. There is no mortgage on his estate; no one can raise an opposing claim, the price was paid in open court, and the Church is the Lord's freehold forever. See the blood-mark upon all the chosen, invisible to human eye, but known to Christ, for "the Lord knows those who are his"; he does not forget one of us who he has redeemed from among men; he counts each one of us for whom he laid down his life, and remembers well you and me for which he gave himself.

We are also his by conquest.
What a battle he had in us before we would be won! How long he laid siege to our hearts! How often he sent us terms of surrender! but we barred our gates, and fenced our walls against him. Do we not remember that glorious hour when he carried our hearts by storm? When he placed his cross against the wall, and scaled our ramparts, planting on our strongholds the blood-red flag of his omnipotent mercy? Yes, we are, indeed, the conquered captives of his omnipotent love.

Therefore we are chosen, purchased, and subdued, the rights of our divine possessor are absolute: we rejoice that we never can be our own; and we desire, day by day, to do his will, and to show forth his glory.

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We are the Lords!