You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice. And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments, and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised.
Deuteronomy 26:17-19
Father God, when I could not keep my end of the bargain, You still did. Though I have time and time again promised to walk in Your ways, keep Your statutes, commandments and rules, to obey Your voice, I always seem to find a way to stumble, misinterpret or foolishly try to get around them, either intentionally or unintentionally. I just can’t seem to get right. I am broken and flawed.
Yet You have not only kept up Your part, You have made up for my lack. Through my Savior You have satisfied my end of the deal, meeting all of my requirements of obedience through His perfect life. And in doing so, You have declared that I am a treasured possession and part of a holy people to You. It cost me nothing but cost Him everything. Therefore today I give You my everything!
LORD, I worship You! My soul cries out to You in glorious gratitude, thankful for not just the price that was paid, but for the ensuing results of that sacrifice on my behalf! That I can now enjoy the benefits of eternal relationship with You, a oneness I could never have comprehended, gives my soul this sense of exhilaration that words cannot describe! To be Your child is not just a label. It is a reality! My life is changed because of You!
I thank You for being the glorious Promise Keeper that You are. Thank You for raising me up with Christ Jesus, causing even now, for my soul to be seated in heavenly places with Him. I don’t deserve it. But, oh my God, I thank You for it! I praise Your Holy and Righteous Name! Thank You, Master!