The following post outlines some key points and maxims concerning the attribute of self-sufficiency that Yahweh, God, possesses as determined from Biblical scriptures.
I hope you find these statements to be interesting and thought provoking and that they will impact your life and how you view God; that it would lead you into a more reverent and worshipful mindset based on His holiness and glory.
• If anything was necessary to God, that thing would be a measure of His imperfection.
Imperfection is something that is entirely impossible of God's character.
• "Whatever God is, and all that God is, He is in Himself."
All life is a gift from God. He cannot receive anything that He has not first given.
• God is solely unique in that he is the only thing that is complete - the only thing that does not
require something outside of itself in order to exist.
I hope you find these statements to be interesting and thought provoking and that they will impact your life and how you view God; that it would lead you into a more reverent and worshipful mindset based on His holiness and glory.
• If anything was necessary to God, that thing would be a measure of His imperfection.
Imperfection is something that is entirely impossible of God's character.
• "Whatever God is, and all that God is, He is in Himself."
All life is a gift from God. He cannot receive anything that He has not first given.
• God is solely unique in that he is the only thing that is complete - the only thing that does not
require something outside of itself in order to exist.
Why did he create the universe then? (If he does not need it or anything in it)
God is not greater because of our existence, nor would he be lesser if we did not exist.
God does not need our help in any way for anything. To assume God has specific goals or plans that require our participation is to set fallacious, finite limitations on His being.
"God has a voluntary relation to everything that He has made, but He has
no necessary relation to anything outside of Himself...
His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure..."
Christianity has to do with God and man, but its focal point is God, not man.
"Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust not in the living God but in dying men."
Self-sufficiency of God, "while a needed rebuke to human self-confidence, will when viewed in its Biblical perspective lift from our minds the exhausting load of mortality and encourage us to take the easy yoke of Christ and spend our lives in Spirit-inspired toil for the honor of God and the good of mankind."
Self-sufficiency of God, "while a needed rebuke to human self-confidence, will when viewed in its Biblical perspective lift from our minds the exhausting load of mortality and encourage us to take the easy yoke of Christ and spend our lives in Spirit-inspired toil for the honor of God and the good of mankind."
"The blessed news is that God who needs no one has in sovereign condescension stooped to work by and in and through His obedient children."
Fulfillment lies in the obedience of God's commandments.
Fulfillment lies in the obedience of God's commandments.
He needs no one, but when faith is present, He works through anyone.
A.W. Tozer. The Knowledge of the Holy. Harper One. 1961.
Great stuff, AJ. I think this is so true, but can be hard for some to stomach. It takes a real transformation deep in our heart of hearts that only Jesus can effect.