Recently I’ve
been thinking about what we need. This question can be answered
in many ways- First, it can be answered in a physical way, we might need, food,
clothing, a home. Or it can be answered in more of an emotional way- we might
need happiness, joy, love. But I quickly came to the conclusion that this isn’t
enough so I decided to see if it was answered in a spiritual way, we might need
a hope, a destiny, even a God. However, to truly answer this question, we need
to look more closely at what is important to us. Food is important, we all need
it to live. Love is important, we all need to show some sort of affection. A
destiny is important, we need something to aim for. But in my search I found there
is something far more important than food, love and a destiny. There is
something so important that people live for it. There is something so amazing,
that people give everything to it. There is something so incredible that some
die for it. The answer wasn’t found through my thinking and through my attempted
intellectual analysis, it was found in the lives of my friends and family, through
their examples and testimonies. It was found in the passion and power I saw in
the young, it was found in the wisdom, joy and peace of the old. It was found
in the Bible when it says, ’I AM THAT I AM’. Ultimately, it was found in Him- in God. That short
verse showed me that God is all-powerful, absolutely completed and totally
self-sufficient. He doesn’t need my worship, he doesn’t need my praise, he is God
and utterly God. He doesn’t depend on my emotions and my feelings to be ‘more
God’, he doesn’t rely on my thoughts and writing to be ‘more alive’ because He
is absolutely all-sufficient and among the many aspects of God, this ‘all-sufficient
nature’ brought me to the thoughts that are written below.
My God is
more than my imagination, greater than my feelings- deeper than my thoughts. He‘s
more than a cross on a church, more like a bridge from man to God- from heaven
to earth. He’s different, cause he’s holy. Special, cause he’s Lord. Jehovah,
cause he’s Jirah - He is who he is. Breath-taking, cause he died a death you
see, on the cross –even though he never needs me. Champion, because he rose
again. Infallible, cause he’s perfect and then, He’s the Saviour who saved me,-
Shepherd, who guides me. The Lamb, the
perfect sacrifice. The Priest who will intercede, He’s I’ll ever need –and all
I ever will, and when that day finally comes, He’ll look into my eyes and say,’
Yes you, you my child are mine.’
So to
answer the question what do we need? We need God. Nothing more and nothing
less. We have to have fervent passion and an unquenchable desire to need God. We need to give
ourselves over to God and let him show us the life he has in store for us. He alone is sufficient, He alone will satisfy and He alone, and only him, is all you will ever need.
