Week 2 Assignment

In the beginning was the Word...the Word was God and In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth(John 1 1, Gen 1 1). He himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything(Acts 17 25) For from him and through him and to him are all things(Romans 11 36), for whom and by whom all things exist(Heb 2 10) and the builder of all things is God(Heb 3 4). You created all things, and by your will they existed and were created(Rev 4 11) For by him all things were created(Col 1 16) and He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride(Job 41 34). Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God(Psalm 90 2). Before Abraham was, I AM(John 8:58), I AM WHO I AM(Ex 3 14). I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End(Rev 22 13), I am the first and I am the last(Is 48 12) and Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me(Is 43 10) For the Father has life in himself(John 5 26), His ways are eternal(Hab 3 6), and the number of his years is unsearchable(Job 36 26). The eternal God is your dwelling place(Deut 33 27) because the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King(Jer 10 10).


God does not need us. God does not need any of us. He is already complete, perfect, unchanging, he already exists in perfect unity between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. There is nothing he lacks, nothing that would make him better, and this is a very good thing because there would be no reason to worship him if this was not so. There is no reason to worship anything that is NOT perfect. We can very easily tell what happens when we worship imperfect human beings. Just look at all of the "role models" that constantly fall off the very high pedestals that we place them on because they should never be there in the first place. They should never be in the place where only God should dwell.

God does not need us. With this in mind we can start to understand just how great God really is. We can see how great is love is for us. "You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly...But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5). God came to us even when we were powerless, powerless to fill a need of God, powerless to do something for him. How great is that love. That love that reaches out to people KNOWING that they cannot help him, they cannot do ANYTHING for him in return. It is perfect. Truly wonderful and absolutely perfect.

And could there be better news than this, that this God wants to work through us, the people that cant do anything for him, the people he does not need. That is the good news. That is the best news that is out there. The God that has absolutely no need for me wants to empower me with his energy, with his strength, with his life to do his perfect will. Now that is a God that is worthy of all praise, fit to be worshiped by all. Blessed be this God forever and ever. Amen.