My God

“So my God put it into my heart to assemble the people.”  Nehemiah 7:5

Is God your God?

I’m not asking if you belong to Him—for if you have received by faith His gift of grace in Christ, then you are truly His.  No, I’m asking if He is yours.  In Scripture you’re assured that you are the apple of His eye, His chosen child, and His treasured possession, but is He yours?  Is God your God?

Ten times in Nehemiah’s story, he refers to the Almighty as “My God.”  Nehemiah’s relationship with God was personal, passionate, and possessive.  Yes, the Lord is the great, mighty, and awesome God(Neh 9:32), the God of heaven(Neh 1:4), and the God who is from everlasting to everlasting(Neh 9:5), and yet, again and again, Nehemiah calls this God, “My God.” 

He wants to be your God too.  Though you can never own Him, He can be your own, and He desires to be your delight and joy.  Forty-one times in scriptures God says, “I am the Lord your God.”  Your relationship with Him should be personal, passionate, and possessive—an intimate connection that can never be fully described but only experienced.  “My God.” 

Those two words have made me smile all day.  By God’s unfailing love and unending grace, I belong to Him, and He belongs to me.  He is “My God.”  An old Scottish hymn says it best:

I’ve found a Friend, O such a friend! He loved me ere I knew Him;

He drew me with the cords of love, and thus He bound me to Him;

And round my heart still closely twine those ties which naught can sever,

For I am His, and He is mine, forever and forever.

Enjoy your God today.

And know that He is yours always.