1 Samuel 12:22
For the Lord (YHWH) will not forsake His people for His great name sake, because the Lord has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.
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We should continually give thanks to the Father for the great things He has done for us—the first and foremost of which was to give His Son Jesus Christ to die in our place on the cross making it possible for us to become His people.

That event was the most powerful proclamation and demonstration of God's love for us. We know what love is because Jesus laid down His life for us! {1Jn.3:16} And as always, it was the Father at work 'both to will and to work for His good pleasure’. {Php.2:13} Therefore, it pleased Him to crush His own Son putting Him to grief just as it was prophesied by Isaiah. {Is.53:10}
 
One of the most well-known Psalms, even by unsaved people, would surely have to be Psalm 23 which says for all to see—and which all too few seem to understand: "He leads me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake." {Ps.23:3} For His name's sake! Remember, "for His pleasure." So as today's verse says it pleased the Lord to make us a people for Himself and we should greatly rejoice in that because we are the recipients, the beneficiaries, of that work that so greatly pleases Him.
 
Having a renewed mind, now set on the things above {Col.3:2} will certainly bring us to the spiritual place where we will have that peace that passes all understanding that the apostle Paul wrote about {Php.4:7} and that Jesus promised in that wonderful Sermon on the Mount:
 
"Do not be anxious then, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'With what shall we clothe ourselves?' For all these things the Gentiles eagerly seek; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:31-33)
 
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