The Israelites were reputed as God's chosen people; they constantly
reminded themselves of how special they are by virtue of the special covenant
between God and their father Abram; a man with no serious spiritual
antecedent but answered God's call and was chosen from a whole lot to
perpetuate God's divine design which marked him and his descendants out as
primus inter pares of God's own people.
God called and selected this son of Terah from Ur and through spiritual
transformation wrought by means of covenant changed his name and instructed his
circumcision at the age of ninety-nine, and made him the harbinger of an
unparalleled covenant in which both were to participate in a covenant of total
inequality. Through Abraham, God's covenant extended to his grandson Jacob
whose dramatic encounter with the messenger of the great ancient of days got a
name; Israel. Thus, Abraham responding to the covenant of Yahweh founded the
United States of Israel, a nation of highly successful people. Hear
the claims some Israelites make to depict their uniqueness as God's choice
- the only people who were 1,939 years without a nation, 176 Nobel Prize
winners have been Jews, exalted to the highest position in the global
business community, producing top lawyers, skilled doctors, surgeons and
successful civil leaders. The list is countless.
Know this therefore that you are also God’s chosen people, you are a holy
nation, you are set apart. The covenant relationship with God ratified by the
blood of Jesus Christ on the wood of Calvary has made it so and has made you an
adopted son and daughter and God’s special choice. Yes, you are part of
Abrahamic legislation and blessings, for the Lord himself has said '...I will
bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall
all families of the earth be blessed' (Gen. 12:3).
For the rest of the month read and meditate on: Gen. 12, 15 and Psalm 105
and you will be richly blessed.
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