God said: “I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. Paul quoted this covenant from God in 2 Cor 6:16, but God first stated this covenant in Gen 17:8. It’s found throughout the Bible, even to Revelation 21:7.
“I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
I’ve been very captured by this covenant. The Creator of the vast universe, the Savior of mankind, the King of everything is our God. That’s our part of the covenant. His part of the covenant is that we will be His people. He has chosen how that part of the covenant will look, how He will interact with us, His people. He is not, as the deists think, a God who has set things in motion and then backed away, disinterested in the affairs of men. He wants a relationship with us, a close relationship with us.
Think of the scriptures which reinforce this!
“What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him?” Deuteronomy 4:7
“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5
“This, then, is how you should pray: Our Father . . .” Matthew 6:9
Because God wants that close, intimate relationship with us, He sets up appointments and interactions with us, to show us who He is, to help us understand which way we should go, to give us encouragement and peace. But most of the time, we (or maybe I should say “I”, because I don’t know what you do) I trip over these interactions and pick myself up, brush myself off, and blindly go on my way, never recognizing what God has done. But sometimes, I have eyes to see.