| | I believe God has one need.
Before you start crying "She's a witch! Burn her!" let me explain. I believe God's one need is for Himself. As three Persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have infinite need for one another, and that infinite need is infinitely fulfilled by each other. To recap, I believe God needs Himself infinitely and fulfills Himself infinitely.
Enter humans. For me, it has always been a little tough to understand why God would create beings other than Himself who somehow need more and more of Him taking over to function. It seemed like a paradox. I wasn't sure I wanted to be swallowed up in that. And then it hit me.
As a human being, I have limits. God's relationship with me is that of an infinite being pouring into a finite container. It's like the ocean going into a pail. Pretty soon, that pail's going to have all it can handle.
HOWEVER, God's capacity for Himself is infinite. The ocean can keep pouring into the ocean, and it's not going to fill up.
My greatest desire in life is for more of God. I'm like the pail, though. In myself I can only take so much before I fill up. Only by being taken into Him, becoming part of Him, and having more of Him flowing through me can I have the capacity for more of Him. The more of Him I have, the more I can hold. His infinite capacity for Himself becomes mine. And my need grows as well.
I cannot think of anything that is more absolutely captivating than the idea of pure Love, of the Trinity that is ever needing and ever fulfilling. By allowing God to take me over, I become part of that infinite dance, as my need for and capacity to experience God grows. And, I become more and more who I am, the person I was created to be.
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| | Posted 6/22/2009 3:23 PM - 35 Views - 12 eProps - 11 comments
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