How touching it is to read "the Lord's portion is His people; Jacob is the lot of His inheritance." (Deut. 32:9.) He who possesses heaven and earth, as Creator and upholder being Lord of all, in telling us what His portion is, passes by angels and all else, to say it is His people. A people, too, whom He calls Jacob, a name significant of all that Jacob was, cunning, planning, weak; but significant, too, of the grace that met him as he was, and chose him for God's peculiar treasure. "Fear not:for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name [Jacob]; thou art Mine." (Isa. 43:i) Christ gave Himself for us that He might sanctify unto Himself a peculiar people, (a people for His own possession, R. V.) (Titus 2:14.) Even the inheritance in heaven, when it is spoken of as God's, is to be enjoyed in the saints (Eph. 1:18). Just as He inherited Canaan in His earthly people, so will He inherit the glories of heaven in us. He has, as it were, no pleasure in it, save as a possession for us. What grace all this speaks of-election, redemption, glory-all show that we are God's portion ! We can say, "I am my Beloved's."