Hard Facts

God wants you, but he doesn’t need you. That’s a hard truth to face, but its true. It’s a new wave of teaching that has been going round for a while, and it has consciously and  unconsciously given some people a form of license to sin and think God just has to forgive them because he cannot live without them. To others, it gives a sort of power over God, in that without you, He cant exist. The fact is that  he was alive before you were born, and will be alive after you die. The bible says that, although he needs praise, (the bible never said he cannot live without it. Prove me wrong by giving a scriptural reference) he doesn’t need us to praise him. He can turn stones into people if need be(Luk 3:8  Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham. ), or the elements of the earth could simply praise him as they are (Psa 65:12  Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side. ; Psa 65:13  The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy. ; Psa 96:11  Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters; Psa 96:12  Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy, ). Besides, do you think your praise can compare with the ones that the 24 crowned elders in heaven, or the angels that sing holy, holy, holy day and night? We always say we are looking forward to praise in heaven. That obviously means that its better over there than here.

God loves you, and he wants you, but you are not indispensable. If you feel you are so, just know that there are other humans from which you were picked. If you want to praise God, praise him with all your heart, not just because you were forced to. Its not by force he will take your half praise. Give him praise worthy of his name, and live a lofe worthy of his love. He does love you, but he will not stand you living a half life, a sinful life just because you think you are indispensible. Sin is aleays punished no matter in whom it is found. (He even punished his own only begotten son when sin was found in him with death.) Live a life that is worthy of the God whom you serve.