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Deuteronomy <\/b>14:2,<\/b> You are \u2026 a peculiar\/treasured people unto himself. <\/i><\/b>The term treasured people\/am segulah <\/i>is used several times in the Torah. For example, in Exodus 19:5\u20136 when YHVH betrothed himself to and married the people of Israel they became his am segulah <\/i>or \u201ctreasured possession among all the peoples of the nation, a kingdom of priests and a kadosh<\/i>\/set-apart nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moses restates this same idea to the younger generation of Israelites about to enter the Promised Land in our present verse, and again in Deuteronomy 26:17\u201319 where he again calls them his \u201ctreasured people\u201d and admonishes them to keep his Torah-commands that he might \u201cmake you high above all the nations which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor, and that you may be a set-apart people unto YHVH your Elohim.\u201d<\/p>\n

What passage in the Testimony of Yeshua does this remind you of? (Read 1\u2009Peter 2:9.)<\/p>\n

Note that YHVH has chosen us from among all the peoples of the earth. As A Torah Commentary For Our Times<\/i> points out, \u201cThis idea that God selects or designates the people of Israel as an am segulah<\/i> remains a central belief in Jewish tradition. The prophet Malachi (3:17) uses the term. So does the Psalmist who, singing in the Jerusalem temple, praises God for having \u2018chosen Jacob\u2014Israel\u2014as a treasured possession\u2019\u201d (135:3\u20134; p. 132).<\/p>\n

With humility, contrition and gratefulness, do you own this identity? Is it a part of your innermost being? If you know that you are a special treasure and a called-out people destined for great things in the kingdom of Elohim will not the reality of who <\/i>you are and whose<\/i> you are and what you are to become affect your walk of righteousness here and now? Does this not inspire you to walk a little higher, a little more set-apart, a little closer to YHVH, and to be a better spiritual light through your words, thoughts and deeds to the heathens around you?<\/p>\n

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