{"id":36932,"date":"2022-09-13T13:16:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-does-god-need-us\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:16:51","slug":"why-does-god-need-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-does-god-need-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does God need us ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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God does not really need us as He is self-sufficient, complete, almighty and perfect. Complete perfection could be likened to a circle, having no beginning and no end. Therefore, a perfect being like God does not need anything or anyone.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, human beings are God's creation and He created us in His image. We manifest some of God's qualities when we are at our best: love, joy, compassion, justice, wisdom and so on. Humans desire to have children, because we were created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27).  We long<\/strong> to bless children with our love and our lives.  So does God; he loved us even while we were sinners.<\/p>\n

God is the absolute creator and He enjoys using His love, wisdom, justice and power in the creation process. Revelation 4:11, “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created<\/strong>.” Love as a quality generates Love, and what better way to spread Love than by creating children with whom to share this love?<\/p>\n

Our fall from grace saddened our Heavenly Father. He manifested His love for us by giving His only begotten Son to save and redeem us.<\/p>\n

Does this not prove love? Imagine a human parent willingly sacrificing or having to choose between two sons in order to save one of them. Which human parent could do that? This is not possible for us – this would be such a great heart break. Yet God in His immense love did exactly this for us when sent His Son, Jesus. We need God, and we need His love like a flower needs the sun to grow.<\/p>\n

God is our Architect; he created our hearts to be able to love, the most beautiful feeling for which all pain is worthy to be endured.<\/p>\n

“He who does not love does not know God, for God is love<\/strong>.” 1 John 4:8<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God does not really need us as He is self-sufficient, complete, almighty and perfect. Complete perfection could be likened to a circle, having no beginning and no end. Therefore, a perfect being like God does not need anything or anyone. On the other hand, human beings are God's creation and He created us in His … Continue reading “Why does God need us ?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}