“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take.” (Proverbs 3:5-6 NLT)
It always amuses me when I meet someone who thinks they’ve done Jesus a favor giving Him their lives. It also saddens me to realize someone would be so insensitive and blind to the ways of God. He doesn’t need us for anything. He’s perfect in every way in and of Himself. He needed no one to help Him build a universe, just the power of His voice.
His thoughts can manifest universes beyond number. Do we really believe He NEEDS us? Yes, of course, He wants us and desires a relationship with us, but that’s not to add anything to Him, it’s to complete us. We were never meant to be alone, as Genesis 2:18 suggests, but to believe that Eve completed Adam is to be blind to why God created us.
God plus nothing equals completion, fulfillment, the NEED for nothing more; however, us plus nothing equals depression, defilement, and desperate need. The Lord created us for intimacy with Him as the only means of true fulfillment and completion.
The Apostle Paul understood this, that’s why he counseled others not to marry. It’s certainly not wrong to marry, actually it can be quite good, but it’s always going to be less fulfilling than being “married” to the Lord. The point is, we don’t need an addition to our life, we need an exchange.
Paul Washer wrote: “The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.” To believe we can be “more” with Jesus is to misunderstand the Gospel. God’s intention for us isn’t that we would become more, but less. The more highly we think of ourselves, the less we think of Jesus.
To allow Jesus only part of us, believing He’s an addition to us, is to misunderstand our role in the relationship. He’s the Master, we’re the slave; He’s the ruler, we’re His subject. To believe otherwise is to misconstrue the role the transformation of our being plays in our development as a believer. We’re molded to be HIS instrument in the world, not our own; to build HIS holy Name, and to extend HIS eternal Kingdom, not our own. To make a name for ourselves may be our goal, but never His, and to believe we’ll accomplish our purposes more effectively by using His name is not only a mistake, it’s sin.
We exchange our sin for His salvation; our inadequacy for His supremacy in and over all things; our need for His bountiful provision; our shame for His victory; our weakness for His strength; our earth for His heaven; our death for His eternal life! We bring nothing to the table but our lostness and need of a Savior and to believe anything else is to believe a lie.
The Lord doesn’t need me (or you 😊), but He’s so kind He never “rubs it in our face.” He never tells us it’s “His way or the highway,” He simply invites us to share in His grandeur and greatness; to be a small part in the accomplishment of His eternal purposes on earth; for the gift of spending all eternity in His eternal home.
It’s taken me a lifetime to realize I’m nothing . . . without HIM! He IS my life! Apart from Him I’m not only nothing, I can literally do nothing. But with Him, I have no disease, no weakness, no infirmities of any kind that can prevent me from being everything He desires me to be in this season of my life. And neither do you, child of God, neither do you!
Food for thought.
Blessings, Ed 😊
Walking With Jesus 