Self-Existence and Self- Sufficiency

Part 2

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1) and Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created (Genesis 5:2). There is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God, (Romans 13:1b) as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. (Romans 4:17) Do you thus repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you? (Deuteronomy 32:6) You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker," He did not make me" ;or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"? (Isaiah 29:16). Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable (Isaiah 40:28). Let them praise the name of the LORD! For he commanded and they were created. (Psalm 148:5) Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he? (Isaiah 2:22) Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. (Deuteronomy 4:39) God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." "(Exodus 3:14b) I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things. (Isaiah 45:7) "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. (Job 38:4) For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. (Romans 1:20) He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. (Colossians 1:15-17) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1) "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things ,and by your will they existed and were created." (Revelation 4:11) and now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. (John 17:5) yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. (1 Corinthians 8:6) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)

Part 3

How can we fear someone who needs us? God does not need us, and we fear Him as did Abraham, Moses and David, among many. God would be lesser if He needed us, and the nature of God cannot allow Him to be lesser than anything. Approaching God with fear and respect is the correct approach to serving God, not selfishly assuming that you will better God by giving anything to Him. In fact, even the service we give to God is given to us in the first place by Him: whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies (1 Pet. 4:11b)