Does God Need?

By Texas Tess (TMF)

Q: 

 You write that God “needs” us. I find the use of this word difficult to associate with God. If God indeed “needs” us does that not diminish His “self-sufficiency”? [sic] and therefore diminish him as God? to need something is to recognize a gap in one’s existence. Can you speak to why you used this word?

 

A:   

Thank you for your questions and giving us a chance to answer. If you read the context of those statements, it refers to God’s plan and purpose. Why did He make the world and us? For Himself. “All things were created by him, and for him” (Col. 1:16). Why? What did He want? Paul clearly states God’s preconceived plan before creation:

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.” (Eph. 1:4-5)

God wanted children to love and to reciprocate His own perfect love, not human love.

God IS love. What is love if it is alone? Love needs a recipient; it NEEDS to be shared. His Father-nature had a need for children whom He could love and who would love Him with the perfect love of His own Son.

Before God even started creating, He planned to have children in Christ, with Christ alive in them (John 17:21-26), as HIS children sharing the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4), to live in His house. And He is working out His whole plan to this goal. Celebrate your place in God's plan as His re-birthed child, loved, holy, and blameless, for His glory and good pleasure!