“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ - Acts 17:24-28 NIV
It's a difficult concept to grasp, that God does not need us. He doesn't need our actions or our deeds. Instead it is we who need him. We need him for our daily provision, we need him for the very life we breathe. It's only our conceit that thinks that we have to be the one who does all the work, the one who creates something, discovers something, leads people to the light. Whether we confess it or not, it is only 'in him we live and move and have our being.'
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