Treasured

Deuteronomy 26:18-19

Today the Lord has obtained your agreement: to be his treasured people, as he promised you, and to keep his commandments; for him to set you high above all nations that he has made, in praise and in fame and in honor; and for you to be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.

Praise

Fame 

Honour

Holy

In agreement

to keep the commandments

of our God

A promise

and a commitment

that goes both ways

and makes us

a treasured people

who belong to God.

What a notion -

that the God of all creation

treasures you and I.

To live and love as treasured people

keeping the commands of God,

to lean into that promise

would change our lives

and the life of the world.