When the Risen Savior informed Mary Magdalene that He would soon ascend unto His people's God, He was not uttering a mere commonplace fact.
While it is true that there is but one true and living Jehovah God, and He reigns over all the universe, yet it cannot be said that He is a God to the heathen and the wicked. Rather, God repeatedly promised that He would be a God to those who keep covenant with Him and seek after Him.
Thus, when Jesus announces that God is our God, He is asserting a proprietary and loving claim by the Deity upon His beloved people.
All through the Old Testament, God promised to His people that He would "be their God, and they shall be My people."
To say that the Lord is God is far different from affirming that the Lord is OUR God. Such a statement affirms loyalty and obedience to God, and a claim to trust in Him and count upon His mighty power to save us!
Those who will not trust and obey God are not entitled to call Him their God, and He will not call them His people.
The first example in Scripture of God announcing this special relationship with His people is found in Genesis 17, when God covenants with Abram to be a God unto him and his seed after him.
God's promises to be a God unto His people are almost always coupled with reminders or promises of great salvation.
The most explicit promise is the New Covenant announced in Jeremiah 31, in which God promises to save His people, make them perfect, and forgive all their iniquities.
The Lord Jesus brings us to God by His sacrifice. Jesus' announcement is a confirmation that His death has executed the New Covenant, and therefore we who trust in Jesus are God's people.
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
