Psalm 119:94

Today’s verse is a concise and comprehensive statement regarding a believer’s relationship to God.  It states his relationship to God, the clearest evidence of that relationship, and what he can expect from that relationship.

Psalms 119:94  I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

I am thine.  The pronoun thine is in the possessive case.  It states that the psalmist was God’s possession, that he belonged to the Lord.  All men and all things belong to God as their Maker.

Psalms 24:1  The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

But God has chosen out of mankind a number of people who belong to Him in a way that the rest of them do not.

Deuteronomy 32:8  When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

9  For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Psalms 33:12  Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Those whom God has chosen, He has also redeemed from sin by the blood of His Son so that they are His not only by choice, but also by purchase.

1 Corinthians 6:19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Titus 2:14  Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Consider that word peculiar which is used to describe those whom Christ has redeemed.

Peculiar – That is one’s own private property; that belongs or pertains to, or characterizes, an individual person, place, or thing, or group of persons or things, as distinct from others.

Christ by His sacrifice has redeemed and purified unto Himself a people that are His own private property and are distinct from others.  Now when one chooses a house and purchases it, we say that he takes possession of it when he moves in and dwells in it.  It is the same with God’s people.  Being chosen and purchased by Him, God also possesses them by dwelling in them.  This is seen from 1Corinthians 6:19, which we cited above, and also in this verse: 

Romans 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

If the Spirit of God never indwells a man, that man does not belong to Christ.   “He is none of his.”  Therefore, being chosen, redeemed, and indwelt by God we may say with the psalmist:  I am thine. 

But how do you know that you belong to the Lord?  You may be assured that you are the Lord’s when you can say as did the psalmist:  for I have sought thy precepts.  If you seek to know and obey the Lord’s precepts, then by this you show that you are His.  You prove whose you are by whom you serve.

Acts 27:23  For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve….

Romans 6:16  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

1 John 3:24  And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

If you have the proof that you are the Lord’s, then you may boldly come to Him with this request:  Save me.  If we are the Lord’s by choice, redemption, and indwelling, we are already eternally saved.  But there are still many temptations and troubles in this life from which we need to be saved.  For example, we have already seen that the psalmist was beset by enemies that sought to destroy him.  In fact, they had “almost consumed” him upon earth and would have completely consumed him if God had not heard his prayer for deliverance (Psalm 119:87).  Charles Bridges expanded on this prayer thusly:  “Save me from the love of sin, from the daily guilt and power of sin; from the treachery of my own foolish heart:  from all this, and all besides, which thou seest ensnaring to my soul.”  That is the kind of prayer someone prays who is seeking God’s precepts.  If we belong to the Lord, it honours Him when we call upon Him to save us in a time of trouble.  By this means we show that we believe His love for us and His power to save us.

Psalms 50:14  Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

15    And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

As a servant of Christ you have no greater privilege than that of belonging to Him.  Take advantage of that relationship and “come boldly” unto His throne of grace that you “may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16).  Say unto God:  I am thine, save me.