I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. Isaiah 43:1
SA 43:1{It was not only to purchase them out of bondage and death as one might buy a captive thrush on a winter evening and let it loose into the hungry cold and think no more about it; it was to redeem them unto Himself, to be His own portion and inheritance and treasure and delight, to be a "people near unto Him," to be the objects on which all His divine love might be poured out to be the very opportunity of His joy. His glory and our good were inseparably joined in it. He did it "to make Him a name," and we may reverently say that even the very Name which is above every name could not have been the crown of the exaltation of the Son of God but for this.
O mystery of grace,
That chooseth us to stand before Thy face,
To be Thy special treasure,
Thy portion, Thy delight, Thine own;
That taketh pleasure
In them that fear Thy Name, that hope alone
In Thy sweet mercy's boundless measure.