Deuteronomy 26:18 And the Lord has declared this day that you are His people, His treasured possession as He promised, and that you are to keep all His commands. (From this covenant the Lord has made with us today, we stand on His Word, on His sovereign declaration, on this legal document, that He will be our God and that we will be His people. He vows that in this covenant with us He will consider us His particular treasure, His special jewel, particularly and personally prized by Him. Our part of the covenant that the Lord has generously and lavishly extended to us is to walk in obedience to Him, and, by virtue of His part of the covenant, He declares that we are His treasured possession. We are so valued by Him that He stamps on us today His Own mark, moving us into a treasured status, choosing to make us His heritage, His inheritance.)
