With what joy and assurance the Psalmist sang (Ps. 118:28), "Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee"! The Psalmist must have had a ripened understanding of God and of his own relationship to Him to be able to recognize that God truly was his God and that he was blessed by this great truth.
Surely the Psalmist understood and worshiped the one and only God. He was thus enjoined by the First Commandment (Ex. 20:3), "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." This commandment also is our commandment, that is, we are not to have a belief in another god; we are not to give allegiance to any supposed power; but we are to acknowledge the one God, whom we worship in all of His perfection. God is not just a god, one of many; neither is God isolated from His creation. He is our God, the One who supports, protects, and loves the only creation there is. Because we are members of this creation, we own Him as our Father-Mother God.
What does it mean to have God for our God? When we state that it means everything, we recognize the infinity of good with which God envelops us. It means that we are never outside the realm of good and its dominion; it means that we are never away from His thoughtful love and attention; it means that we have true, boundless supply. In fact, it means that we have all good in heaven, where man dwells. This heaven is not a static condition, but it is a heaven of glory, in which we enjoy the unfoldment of infinite ideas, a heaven which unfolds to us the joy which is so abundant that limitation is unknown. What right have we to claim that God is our God? Because God Himself has given us this privilege. Isaiah records His message (43:3), "I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour." Here is definite permission to claim Him as our God.
