Does God Even Need Us?
Why doesn’t God just take care of things for himself? Why does he involve us at all?
Have you ever thought about that? I mean, he is God and is all sufficient, so he doesn’t really need us. He didn’t create humans because he was lonely. He is God. He doesn’t get lonely. He can speak worlds into existence and destroy them with a word but yet he puts up with us puny humans.
Now, let me ask you, is that how you feel about your children? Of course it isn’t. We are not only God’s creation, we are his children.
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.” —Ephesians 2:10
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” – 1 John 3:1
Not only that, God loves us so much that he didn’t wait for us to be good enough to save us from our sins. He loves us like we are…but he loves us too much to leave us that way!
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”— Romans 5:8
People like to create God in their own image. They like to make him into a form that serves them and that is palatable for them. They like to claim he is exclusive to their personal religion or even political party. But the truth is, there is only one God and he deserves all the glory and praise and honor. Anything else is religion, not the relationship we were meant to have with him.
“For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens. Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength! Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts!” —Psalm 96:4-13
As wonderful as that is, is there more to it even than that?
Why did he choose to pour his favor and love upon something as unworthy and weak as humans? Human babies are the most helpless babies there are. Throughout nature, animals like horses and other animals get up on their feet sometimes minutes from being born, but not humans. Human babies are completely dependent on their parents to protect and nurture their babies until many years later when they can stand on their own. Yet, perhaps, this is exactly why he chooses us, for if he can take the most helpless beings in his creation and show forth his true power and glory through such unlikely beings with all their faults and weaknesses, then he is truly glorified.
His true power and harmony are displayed when even the weakest in his creation show forth his power in the midst of adversity and overcome. It shows how powerful he really is. It is why he chooses those that people overlook. He chooses the small to defeat the enemies of this world; he chooses the lambs to slay the lions. We are all connected to the Creator more intimately than I think we can even comprehend.
“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;” —1 Corinthians 1:27
God is omnipresent. He is everywhere.
“Where shall I go from your spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.” —Psalm 139:7-10
He is like an ether all about us and in every living thing. His omnipresence is like a vast, invisible ocean that fills us all with life and connects us to him. He is so intimately tied to his creation that he is even aware and part of the storms in our lives and to him they are but ripples caused by each created being’s choices, good and evil and even those things that are basically neither good nor evil. We are all connected. All we do affects every other thing. Our actions cause the greatest ripples of all, but have no doubt our very thoughts also affect all living things and all creation. For all actions are preceded by thoughts. Potential actions present themselves every day to the courtroom of our minds to be tried by us, and then we make our choices. It all begins with a thought. Some would say there are some things that affect our world more than others and it may seem so, but the reality is every thought, every action, every choice has no less effect than another. How can it? We are all created and began as a thought in the Creator’s great mind. He only is truth. From him every living thing proceeds. And everything is a living thing. Truth is from the Creator and the Creator is truth.
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” — John 14:6
All that we do or say or even think affects the still in the ether. Ether is truth. Truth is life. The ether is the life that runs through all things and though it runs through us, it also is us. All things are one. We are all part of his great mind. The Holy Spirit is in all things on some level, but when we believe on Jesus Christ and repent of our sins, we are born again. It is so important that we make this step, for we all became disconnected when Adam and Eve sinned long ago.
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” — Romans 3:23
He only can make the claim to be the perfect truth. As we abide in him, we are part of that grand design. If we depart from the light, then in light’s absence the darkness becomes our guide. And darkness is a blind guide that only leads to more darkness until it overtakes you.
Take time to connect to him and you will understand.
In his presence, it may seem frightening at first, but be not afraid. Take time to embrace him in your spirit and you will see it will feel like the most natural place to be. He is fire and ice, peace and chaos all in one. Yet not the chaos of confusion and destruction, it is like being in the presence of all that is possible and feeling as if you are totally immersed in possibility. He is light and yet there is no fear of darkness in him, for all things become light and power in his presence.
“ There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. “ — 1 John 4:18
Practicing his presence, unfortunately, is not something that comes natural to us. It is something we must apply ourselves to. We aren’t born with it and even if we are born again, it is still something we must nurture. We must learn to recognize his presence all about us in the ether that surrounds and inhabits us all. Practice his presence and learn to hear his breath on the wind and his voice in the sound of the brook or the leaves that crackle across the surface of the Earth. All attempts to describe him or attach a name to him will always fall short of who he is. He is spirit. He is not his creation, yet he is connected in some way and is part of all things. He is intimately part of and connected to all his creation, yet he is creator. Don’t make the mistake of thinking his creation is equal to him, for he alone is to be worshiped. But we can acknowledge his presence everywhere and in all things.
Consider these scripture verses:
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” —Romans 1:21-25
Knowing him and being in his presence is true spirituality. True spirituality has nothing to do with religion or any particular set of beliefs. It is an all-encompassing view of life and not denying that things are more connected than most want to accept. True spirituality carries over into every aspect of your life. It’s not something you have to stir up, pay up, or wind up. It becomes as real as the air you breathe, invisible in many ways, but so real and vital to you as an individual. True spirituality is something that comes alongside everything you do, every thought you think and everything you see. It becomes a filter through which you view all things on a level that just makes sense. That is what Jesus meant when he said, in Matthew 6:33, “But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” It is like putting on glasses that allow you to see him in all things clearly. When you put him first, it doesn’t mean to neglect anything in life, but to see it through God’s eyes and from his perspective.
It is always difficult to put into words that which can only truly be understood on a spiritual level. But I shall try. But even as I speak, you must truly listen with spiritual ears to truly understand. First of all, have no doubt, all we say or do is a prayer to the Creator and a ‘joining’ with his omnipresence. All we do or say blesses or curses someone or something somewhere. But there are those times when our prayers become intentional. These prayers open a portal into his presence and join a realm of energy and power that can only be truly understood through God himself. Keep in mind, though that he is Spirit, which technically makes him neither male or female, human or animal…yet he is present in all these things and more.
“God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” —John 4:24
Being in his presence and praying, truly praying, becomes a portal and a looking glass not only for you to view and understand God on some level, but also becomes a portal for the Creator in which he sees himself as viewed by his creation. When we truly and intentionally apply ourselves to be in his presence, we become like lenses that focus the prayers and energies of creation, channels, if you will, that know the very heartbeat of creation and all that we do, say and hear is according to that focus on eternity. I think the average Christian misses out so much when they pray powerless ‘now-I-lay-me-down-to-sleep’ prayers when he desires focused intercession, energy and power. This true power in him can be experienced whenever as little as two or even three come into agreement, to focus upon some particular thing, they draw their own powerful spiritual sword of spirit (Matthew 18:19-21). He has called those who believe, that he calls the church, to be that lens that focuses his will upon all his creation.
“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” —Hebrews 10:24-25
Try to understand how intimately connected you are to God and how intimately he is connected to you. We are called ‘Zion’ and ‘the church’ (Matthew 16:18) in the Bible. We are even called his body. 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 says “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.” Think of the implications of such an analogy. He is the head (Colossians 1:18) but we are his hands and feet. We are privileged to carry out his work in the Earth.
When we truly take time to connect to him and stand in his presence we become like a mother in travail as our desires align with his desires and in so doing even our prayers become travail desiring his will be fulfilled in the Earth and as it is written, when Zion travails then sons and daughters will be born into his kingdom (Isaiah 66:8). When we truly connect with God our very prayers become pains of travail throughout the Earth. All of creation senses and reacts to such moments in time as these as one who is about to give birth. This travail is like an energy sensed by all created things. Some sense it and rejoice, others sense it and don’t understand, but there are also those forces who sense it and fear it, for they know it signals an end to their reign. The power of darkness is broken and the enemy is exposed when we pray, for evil’s power is only an illusion, for no darkness can stand when the light has come. Yet they will rail and resist. You will even feel these evil spirit beings as they resist sometimes, as they sense that which is stronger than they. Never fear these forces. They are deluded and have no power at all except that which you give them by your fear. Never give your power away. Never!
The average Christian falls so short of what God desires us to experience when we rush through a devotion and a powerless prayer. Great men that God used like Charles G. Finney, John ‘Praying’ Hyde, Jonathan Edwards and others knew what it took and cried out to God all times of the day and the night and God answered their prayers and sent revival. Finney even went as far as to say, “Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die-or if need be, to win and die!” Matthew 11:12 says, “The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” This verse isn’t speaking of physical violence, it is speaking of boldly crying out to God, being violent to the devil in our prayers as we command the devil to loose those that are lost.
Get to know this loving God and Creator. He gave his son Jesus Christ to not only show us the way but to be that way (John 14:6). On the day Jesus was crucified the veil in the Jewish temple that blocked anyone but the appointed priest was torn in two from top to bottom (Matthew 27:51) as a message to us that we could enter into God’s presence. Hebrews 4:16, which states, “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” This emphasizes the confidence and freedom believers have to approach God. There was a time God walked and talked with the humans he created in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:8). He is still among us, Matthew 18:20 tells us, “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” My prayer is that we all get to know this God who loves us so much that he wants to be among us and fellowship with us and guide us.
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