The number one thing that God wants from you
What are some things you can鈥檛 give God? Since he created all of creation, it can be legitimately said that he 鈥渙wns the place鈥� (Genesis 1:1), and he doesn鈥檛 need help in paying the taxes, insurance or utilities.
All of creation runs at God蘑菇视频 command. So we can鈥檛 give or help God out with housing, remodeling, deciding materials, repairs, black holes, supernovas, meteors, etc., with the cosmos. It蘑菇视频 also apparent that we can鈥檛 help God with any car repairs. Maybe God needs an exercise partner?
If God got headaches (not counting people issues), we could offer an aspirin. But I think that God蘑菇视频 being doesn鈥檛 have physical issues. God doesn鈥檛 have normal needs like humans do. But does God need anyone蘑菇视频 help with anything? Does God need anyone蘑菇视频 counsel? What advice do we think we could offer to God that he needs?
God is self-sufficient. There was no water, air or sunlight before God created them, so it蘑菇视频 evident that he didn鈥檛 need what he created since it didn鈥檛 exist, until he created it. No-brainer stuff. There wasn鈥檛 night or day until God created it, so God wasn鈥檛 and isn鈥檛 dependent on time. Since he created the Heavens (and stars, etc.) and the Earth, it looks like he didn鈥檛 and doesn鈥檛 need the place of physical space. God was before time and place. I鈥檓 still trying to wrap my head around someone who always has been.
It蘑菇视频 definitely a faith thing. God, as God, is not dependent on his creation; his creation is dependent upon him. Where would existence be without the existence of God? In Genesis 1:27, we see that God made man in his image. An image means familiarity, a likeness. God made man as something familiar to him. In other words, they could relate one to another, as themselves.
Then, in Genesis 2:17, God warns the young married couple Adam and Eve not to eat from the forbidden fruit because the day they did, they would 鈥渄ie.鈥� God warned them to not do something, so something worse would not happen as a result. Why was God concerned about their dying? Well, the story unfolds that they did eat of the fruit (Genesis 3:16). After that disobedience, the story reveals that death/separation and fear did come into their being. When they heard God in the garden, they hid from him because they were afraid.
What was lost was their familiarity with God. Now they were being separated from God. God warned Adam about the death/separation that would come from their disobedience, because he didn鈥檛 want to lose the familiarity he had with them because he cared and loved them. The thing that God lost and wanted from them was and is the number one thing God wants from you, a relationship. The relationship he had with them had become dysfunctional, and it was only going to get worse as time went on with mankind.
God蘑菇视频 relationship with man is handicapped. What was God to do? To make a long story of Biblical proportion (pun intended) short, he sent Christ to the cross to die for us, taking our death/separation for us. Therefore, God could have what he wants, and that is to have a relationship with us, by accepting the work that Christ did on the cross.
Be reminded, God doesn鈥檛 need this relationship, he existed before us. But God so loved the world, us, that he made a legitimate and acceptable pathway. God had an action plan to reconcile the relationship. The relationship may not yet be everything it should be, but the road to full recovery is well on its way.
While we can鈥檛 give God anything he needs, we can give him what he wants: us, a relationship. God wants us to have what we need, which is him. But the 鈥渨ant to鈥� came from him first. Do we have the 鈥渨ant to鈥� for a needed relationship with God?
Tracey Gardone was a church service provider and teacher for the Greene County Jail ministry from 1993 to 1998. He was the founding senior pastor of Family Faith Ministries, now Crosspoint Assembly of God Carmichaels. He has provided Sunday morning teachings for a recovery center for addicted/troubled teenagers. He has written books and conducted lectures, teachings and interviews. He is an ordained minister in good standing with the Assemblies of God and is a member of Faith Assembly of God Church in Uniontown. He also has a website promoting his recent book and ministry 鈥� www.traceygardone.com.)