NEED...

"For every animal of the forest is mine and the cattle on a thousand hills... the world is mine and all that is in it..." - Psalm 50:10, 12
Does God need anything?

Sometimes we think too highly of ourselves. We act like God is our elderly grandfather who needs our help getting from the recliner to the bed. We act as if it weren't for our charitable contributions, He would be left trying to scrape together a plan to save what he could on a fixed income. This is obviously not correct. The more accurate analogies are those offered by the Scriptures about our relationship to God. The Bible suggests that we are like sheep (Matthew 9:36). We eat the grass in God's field and stay within the boundaries that He establishes, or else find our own way among the lions and wolves. The Bible also says that God is the potter and we are the clay (Jeremiah 18:6). We are just a lump of dirt until He forms us into what He wants us to be. By relying on the images of scripture, there is no escaping that God is the sole proprietor of creation and we are at best leasing space.

Therefore, when we give to God, we are not keeping Him afloat for another month. God does not need anything. So why do we give? When we stop and think about it, I guess that's pretty obvious...maybe the real struggle is not in thinking that God has needs, but in admitting that we do!