We don't want him. We need him.
Ponder that for a moment.
God doesn't need us. He wants us.
We don't want him. We need him.
Lately, I've been wrestling with my thoughts on my God being a jealous God wanting me, my time, a relationship with me
Strong Enough to Save
Watching this video, courtesy of Mike from Tenth Avenue North, made it clear to me.
While yes, he is indeed High and Almighty, I just cannot picture my God sitting on a high horse wishing that the number one focus of his children be to only give him praise and glory. As if that were the sole purpose of his existence. That we tell him over and over again how much of our God he is. That he needs us, can't function without that being checked off the list.
"And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else" (Acts 17:25).
"But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?'" (Romans 9:20).
I just asked one of my friends the other day, "Do you think God knows how legit he is?". Of course he does, he's God. Without undermining any of God's glory, bottom line is....he doesn't need us. He is still God, still holy, still powerful, still the Truth, still the Life. We don't make him be any of this. He's got it down pat all on his own. That's the beauty of our God.
On the contrary, though, God desperately wants us. He is indeed a jealous God (Exodus 20:5, Deuteronomy 4:24, Joshua 24:19). He wants a relationship with us, he wants our time, he wants us running to him. He wants to be the most important person in our life....more important than mom, dad, brother, or sister (Matthew 10:37). When we push him away, it hurts him. Since he was fully human, he knows what it's like to have his feelings hurt. To cry. He loves us so stinkin much that of course he wants to spend time with us.
"Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20).
"But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers" (Hebrews 2:9-11).
More than any earthly father could ever want his child. He wants me. He wants you. Desperately.
ps...I encourage, highly encourage you to watch some of Tenth Avenue North's other 'video journals'...they've got their doctrine DOWN!
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