Self-Sufficient God needs no helpers nor defenders!

" The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself....The word necessary is wholly foreign to God...As no one can promote Him, so no one can degrade Him.

Were all human beings suddenly to become blind, still the sun would shine by day and the stars by night, for these owe nothing  to the millions  who benefit from their light. So, were every man on earth to become atheist, it could not affect God in any way.

 He is what He is in Himself without regard to any other. To believe in Him adds nothing to His perfections: to doubt Him takes nothing away.

The picture of a nervous, ingratiating God fawning over men to win their favor is not a pleasant one: yet if we look at the popular conception of God that is precisely what e see. Twentieth century Christianity has put God on charity.

Probably the hardest thought of all for our natural egotism to entertain is that God does not need our help. We commonly represent Him as a busy, eager, somewhat frustrated Father hurrying about seeking help to carry out His benevolent plan to bring peace and salvation to the world...The God who worketh all things surely needs no help and no helpers.

Too many missionary appeals are based upon this fancied frustration of Almighty God...I fear that thousands of younger persons enter Christian services from no higher motives than to help deliver God from the embarrassing situation. His love has gotten Him into and His limited abilities seem unable to get Him out of.

Again, God needs no defenders. He is the eternal Undefended.

To be right we must think worthily of God. It is morally imperative that we purge from our minds all ignoble concepts of the Deity and let Him be the God in our minds that He is in His universe."

(Taken from the book,The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer)

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I say amen to all what Tozer had put in words above. Because I cannot think, say or write so beautifully and affirmatively as Tozer who dwells endless hours in commune with God, I choose to share his knowledge of the Holy with those who read my blog so that they too will be blessed and put aright in their concept of God.