Read Psalm 100:1–5 It is true that all people belong to God, as creatures to their Creator, as property to its owner, as subjects to their ruler. All things and all people were made by God and for God and all are ruled by God’s sovereign will. This is God’s right as the absolute Sovereign of all his creatures (Rom. 9:15–26). But we who believe belong to God as a child belongs to its father, as a wife to her husband, as a willing bondslave to his
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