Learning to live for HIS glory

Need. Would it be safe to say we all have ... a bit of a ... love/hate relationship with that word? Needs are core to human existence. We are needy people. We don't like to think so, But we are. Having our needs met though... makes us happy, Even things that are more  "supposed" needs... Maybe especially those. It's crazy to think about someone or something living without any need, And that is exactly who our God is. Acts 17:24-25 says so: "The God who made the world and all things in it, Since He is Lord of heaven and earth, Does not dwell in temples made with hands; Nor is He served by human hands,  As though He needed anything, Since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things." He has no needs, And yet He is the one who meets all of our needs. We can depend on Him to do so. "And my God will supply all your needs According to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus....

This past week, the girls and I studied God as the Self-existent one. It's pretty amazing when you go back and read Genesis, And think about the fact that He created...out of nothing... (but His word). That's just not possible for us. And as the Creator of all, He is other. Set-apart. Holy. And He is Owner. For what is creating,  If not a right to ownership? So we cannot truly own anything. He does. We are simply stewards. Hm. Do I live like this? "In the beginning was  the Word, and the Word was  with God, and  the Word was God.   He was in the beginning with God.   All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being." John 1:1-3 "For by Him all things were created,  both  in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether  thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities— all things have been created through Him and for Him....

"Oh the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!   How unsearchable are His judgements and unfathomable His ways!   For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?   Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to Him again?   For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.   To Him be the glory forever.   Amen." ~Romans 11:33-36~ "I will extol You, my God, O King, and I will bless Your name forever and ever.  Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable ." ~Psalm 145:1-3~ "Great is our Lord and abundant in strength;  His understanding is infinite. " ~Psalm 147:5 Consider with me for a moment the bigness of these words describing my God. Unsearchable. Unfathomable. Abundant. Infinite. This God I serve is so huge that ...

Yesterday some young ladies from church and I started a study on the book titled,  None Like Him  by Jen Wilkin. Each chapter talks about an attribute of God that He alone has- meaning we don't share it. In the introduction, Wilkin gives us her goal for the book, "In the pages that follow, I want us to consider the majesty of a limitless God.  I want us to meditate on his perfections so that they become to us the most rational object of our reverence and awe.  And along the way, I want us to stare down our tendency to ask others and even ourselves to be what only God is.  Life is too short and too precious to spend fearing the wrong things in the wrong ways.  I propose we learn holy fear for a God like no other." Amen.  As we go through this study, I'm going to attempt to post each week some thoughts on the attribute we're studying that week.  Please feel free to leave your own thoughts and questions in the comments...I'd love fo...