Deuteronomy 28:9 The Lord will establish you as His holy people, as He promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to Him. (This is covenant language in which the Lord vows to align Himself with the peculiar, separated, people on earth whom He has chosen, beginning with Abraham all the way to each of us today. Because of His choosing, He has exalted us, raised us up, placed a value on us that did not arise from any inherent worth in us. Instead, He made a sovereign choice to single out a people and to maintain us in His favored standing. As He establishes His people, He causes us to arise, to stand up, to abide, to make sure, to be upheld. He has brought into existence a people who was not a people until He placed His promise in the seed of Abraham. Today, He has continued to establish us and has caused us to abide and to be made sure in Him. Such favored status is based on the fulfillment of the people's part, our part, of the covenant, which is to heed and attend to the Lord, to preserve and observe adherence to His ways, and to honor Him through our obedience.)
