God Doesn't Need You
God Doesn’t Need You
Why is it that we compare earthly fathers to our Heavenly Father? Why is it that we compare imperfection with perfection? Why is it that we compare good with good or bad with good? No one has, can, or ever will be perfect or measure up to our Heavenly Father.
I think one of, if not the reason that we compare is that we don’t fully understand perfection. We like to think we do. We humans certainly like to think we know or understand or even have the capacity to fully understand, therefore we think we know perfection. But perfection requires no lack. It requires no need. That’s what makes perfection perfect. Whereas, we as humans are riddled with both lack and need.
We are not born perfect, as we all know. But we were not created perfect either. We were created to have community with God - the only Perfect One. We need that. However, God does not. God, in His perfection, lacks nothing.
If He lacked something He couldn’t be God. The thing He lacked would be, in some way, greater than Him or have some greater power than Him. And He couldn’t be God. God does not lack; therefore He does not need.
If He needed you He would have had to do something more than send His Son. He would be nothing more than the gods of the Greeks and Romans that required worship and sacrifice for them to keep their power. If that were the case, we humans would have more power by withholding worship and sacrifice, and could weaken or even kill the gods that are supposedly more powerful than us.
God is not a man that He requires food or sleep or money or learning or help of any kind. Or even a partner as He created for Adam. We were created with needs. We were created with lacks. God was not created; therefore He has no needs, but He does have wants.
Need is built on dependency. Children need their parents. Parents need each other to create those dependents. The government even calls them dependents, and lets you claim them on your taxes. But children need their parents because they lack the abilities on their own.
Need exposes our deficiencies. Need requires dependency. But want is built on intimacy.
As much as we want and try to do life on our own we can’t. We weren’t created to do it on our own - separated from our Creator. And if we could save ourselves then there’s no reason for Jesus. There’s no reason for any of this, honestly.
But want is built on intimacy. To be wanted is much much better than to be needed because that creates the intimacy required to grow the relationship. Being needed is good, but being wanted is great.
God doesn’t need you. But there’s something better. He wants you. And that makes all the difference.
And because He wants you, He also wants for you. He wants good for you, for us. If He wants something from us, you can guarantee it’s because He wants to trade something better. He wants relationship with us. He wants intimacy with us. Not for His good but for ours. The perfect Father only wants good for us. He only has good for us because He knows how to fill the lack that we have. Perfectly.
You are the desire of His heart. You are where His thoughts are. You are His greatest treasure. You are the apple of His eye. A relationship with you is what He wants.
God will always get as serious with you as you get with Him. The depth of your relationship with Him is not based on Him but on you. Intimacy is built privately. Intimacy requires intentionality.
He wants you more than anything in this world. More than any creation in the universe. How much do you want Him?
Why is it that we compare earthly fathers to our Heavenly Father? Why is it that we compare imperfection with perfection? Why is it that we compare good with good or bad with good? No one has, can, or ever will be perfect or measure up to our Heavenly Father.
I think one of, if not the reason that we compare is that we don’t fully understand perfection. We like to think we do. We humans certainly like to think we know or understand or even have the capacity to fully understand, therefore we think we know perfection. But perfection requires no lack. It requires no need. That’s what makes perfection perfect. Whereas, we as humans are riddled with both lack and need.
We are not born perfect, as we all know. But we were not created perfect either. We were created to have community with God - the only Perfect One. We need that. However, God does not. God, in His perfection, lacks nothing.
If He lacked something He couldn’t be God. The thing He lacked would be, in some way, greater than Him or have some greater power than Him. And He couldn’t be God. God does not lack; therefore He does not need.
If He needed you He would have had to do something more than send His Son. He would be nothing more than the gods of the Greeks and Romans that required worship and sacrifice for them to keep their power. If that were the case, we humans would have more power by withholding worship and sacrifice, and could weaken or even kill the gods that are supposedly more powerful than us.
God is not a man that He requires food or sleep or money or learning or help of any kind. Or even a partner as He created for Adam. We were created with needs. We were created with lacks. God was not created; therefore He has no needs, but He does have wants.
Need is built on dependency. Children need their parents. Parents need each other to create those dependents. The government even calls them dependents, and lets you claim them on your taxes. But children need their parents because they lack the abilities on their own.
Need exposes our deficiencies. Need requires dependency. But want is built on intimacy.
As much as we want and try to do life on our own we can’t. We weren’t created to do it on our own - separated from our Creator. And if we could save ourselves then there’s no reason for Jesus. There’s no reason for any of this, honestly.
But want is built on intimacy. To be wanted is much much better than to be needed because that creates the intimacy required to grow the relationship. Being needed is good, but being wanted is great.
God doesn’t need you. But there’s something better. He wants you. And that makes all the difference.
And because He wants you, He also wants for you. He wants good for you, for us. If He wants something from us, you can guarantee it’s because He wants to trade something better. He wants relationship with us. He wants intimacy with us. Not for His good but for ours. The perfect Father only wants good for us. He only has good for us because He knows how to fill the lack that we have. Perfectly.
You are the desire of His heart. You are where His thoughts are. You are His greatest treasure. You are the apple of His eye. A relationship with you is what He wants.
God will always get as serious with you as you get with Him. The depth of your relationship with Him is not based on Him but on you. Intimacy is built privately. Intimacy requires intentionality.
He wants you more than anything in this world. More than any creation in the universe. How much do you want Him?
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