Good morning, and what's that? Yes, I do believe that I hear some rain drops falling this morning. Praise God! Obviously God just needed me to pray the right prayer to get this rain thing started. Umm, you are having a doubt, I can feel it from here. Exactly, the Lord didn't need me to do anything to send the rain. In fact, the rain will arrive on the Lord's time without my paying any attention to it. If a pastor stood up in front of his congregation and spoke something along the lines of 'You need me, and I am glad to be here!', we wouldn't have a doubt and might agree with that statement. We do need a pastor, and that pastor may be the best fit we have found to fulfill the congregation's need for a pastor. Now, have that same pastor stand up and say something like, 'The Lord needs me right here to work His will.' Yikes! everyone scrambles for cover from the impending lightning strike, figuratively speaking of course. We know that the Lord does not need any of us to do anything for Him. We need the Lord to enable, strengthen, encourage, and empower us to do His will in our lives. The Lord may lead us to a certain place in life, and He may want us to go here and there, but the Lord is not needful of us in the way we speak of our need for Him.
A need is something that must be fulfilled in order to accomplish something or to avoid an unhealthy outcome. We need food to sustain our physical life. We need water or we die of thirst. We need the Lord or we die of sin. The Lord our God is perfect and completely self-contained and self-sustained in His own being. Our Lord does not need anyone or anything. However, we need our Creator, and we need our brothers and sisters in Christ. We need our pastor, and dare I write it, our devotional writers. Okay, you may not need this particular one, but you should read at least one devotional to start your morning. Do we need a devotional each morning? Not really. We may want to read one, but what we need is the Word of God. We need salvation, and our Lord is the one who provided the sacrifice to satisfy the judgment sin brought upon us all. Yes, we need the Lord very much. The Lord does not need any of us, but I'm sure glad that He loves us and wants us to be with Him!
Praise God for the rain this morning!Bucky
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