We are His people

Know (perceive, recognise, and understand with approval) that the Lord is God! It is He Who has made us, not we ourselves [and we are His]! We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Psalm 100:3 AMP

If you are wondering today how you fit in and where you belong, have another read of the verse above. We belong to the Lord God. This is how The Message bible puts it,

Know this: GOD is god, and God, GOD.

He made us; we didn't make him.

We're his people, his well-tendered sheep.

Psalm 100:3 The Message

He made us. What an incredible statement. The God of the universe, creator of the heavens and earth, made us. Us, that means you, me, our families, our friends, our neighbours, our work colleagues, our politicians, all people in our nation, all people living in this world, all people that have lived in this world and all people that are yet to live in this world. He made us.

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. 

I thank you, High God - you're breathtaking! 

Body and soul, I am marvelously made! 

I worship in adoration - what a creation!

You know me inside and out,

you know every bone in my body;

You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,

how I was sculptured from nothing to something.

Psalm 139:13-15 The Message

He made us. We are His people. And here are just some of the things that He has promised His people.

The Lord will give [unyielding and impenetrable] strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace. 

Psalm 29:11 AMP

I will listen [with expectancy] to what God the Lord will say, for He will speak peace to His people, to His saints (those who are in right standing with Him) - but let them not turn again to [self-confident] folly.

Psalm 85:8 AMP

For the Lord will not cast off nor spurn His people, neither will He abandon His heritage.

Psalm 94:14 AMP

He has sent redemption to His people; He has commanded His covenant to be forever; holy is His name, inspiring awe, reverence, and godly fear.

Psalm 111:9 AMP

He made us. We are His people. We belong to Him. 

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. [For all things originate with Him and come from Him; all things live through Him, and all things centre is and tend to consummate and to end in Him]. To Him be glory forever! Amen (so be it). Romans 11:36 AMP

So today, let's remember Whose people we are, and the promises He gives His people. Let's do all we can to live for His purposes in a world that so often ignores it's creator.

Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]. Romans 12:2 AMP