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“God does not need you. He needs nothing because He lacks nothing.” That is a true statement, but it is not the whole story.

God sees you as you are. He sees that apart from Him you have nothing complete, nothing lasting. He knows you can never undo your brokenness on your own. He knows you need Him. That is why, because He loved the world so completely, that He gave His only begotten Son to die a death we deserved and to take the full penalty of our sin upon Himself so that we could be set free from our condition of utter alienation from Life. Jesus Christ rose from the dead that we might be delivered from the dominion of darkness and be brought into the very Life of God, His Kingdom, through the shed blood of Jesus the Messiah.

God knows we need Him. God knows that we could never get beyond being spiritually dead. His eternal love has made a way for us to begin again, be born into a radically new kind of living. That New Life will be His Life being lived in us, replacing our death, by the Holy Spirit. God does not need us, but He loves us and has made a way for us to come home.


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