Deuteronomy 14:2b Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be His treasured possession. (Although nothing in God's people of old nor in us today made us more acceptable than others in God's sight, He has chosen us out of His Own divine and sovereign will and His profound and unfathomable wisdom. Standing in such favor, we can only express heartfelt praise and deep gratitude to such a One Who loves like that. Such high and undeserved favor granted to us speaks to the core of our significance and importance. We have been made significant by the Lord. From the impenetrable reaches of space itself, from the billions of galaxies within the space of the universe, from the billions of stars within each of those billions of galaxies, from our small and insignificant Milky Way galaxy in the vast array of galaxies, from the billions of stars within our Milky Way galaxy, from the small and insignificant star we call our sun within our own galaxy, from the vastness of our sun star to the planets circling our sun, from the one planet in our own solar system where we exist, from the billions of people on our blue marble, to the significant you and me, to the individuals who have chosen and accepted salvation and redemption, out of that magnitude and expanse, each one of us carries highly significant value because the Lord God Almighty, because the Creator of the universe and all that is within it has chosen to dwell within us. Far from being insignificant and unimportant, He considers us such a treasured possession that He actually entrusts to us a part of Himself. He grants us Himself, His Own Holy Spirit, to abide in us.)
