We are drawn to need God in our lives not because His presence is a surety bond for a successful life. Neither our quench for God, to fill us, is felt and necessitated merely because it sufficiently guarantees a less quandary living nor the irresistible conviction to walk in is precepts, felt by all Christians, avail to assure us of moment-by-moment undisturbed peace and serenity. One author said, that our knowledge of God determines our relationship with Him, the more we are personally intimated by the Word of God and His laws, the deeper our understanding of our lives would be: past becomes illumined and the future becomes clear.
Our need of God is primarily based on our purpose—the very reason why we were created; it is also entirely premised on the voidness of our existence without serving the ultimate objective of God and the reason of our creation, and that is for Him to be glorified.
This glorification solely intended to serve the Creator, is not confined and must not be defined within the limited, finite understanding of men. This glorification is not selfish, arrogant, pompous or proud as human beings feel when adulated. This assuredly, is beyond our narrow comprehensions; however, our need of God is explained as it is the only way to fill the gap, so immense created by our transgressions. It is the only way one can derive purpose and meaning, not of course, it becomes, a stoicist object of our displaced affections, rather it is the sole answer by which our soul responds positively. Because deeper in our hearts and spirit, the need of Him is indispensable truth not merely fact. It operates even without even having to explain or even without having to give any logical presumptions. Minds need not answer where heart and spirit claim to have conceived.
On a personal level, as this has been confirmed by almost all believers, that the need of God is undeniable fact of living of every Christian. Not even aware of it, there is certain ethereal force, not comparable to any known human emotions that do not stop until the act of holiness has been practiced not for a time or moment but in everyday dealing. It would be known, that it is not merely a force, but the Holy Spirit who convicts us, and teaches us, just the same as Jesus has promised. It is not just conscience as the common erroneous belief is, but a strong leading to repentance and leading to a righteous path of every circumstance that confronts us, where truth and God’s precepts must and shall be applied. The need of God is call of the soul longing for its Giver, the longing of the spirit to its Creator, and the end purpose of flesh by its Master Designer. The philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, had perfectly described this intense longing, and he capsulated this idea to wit:
“There is God-shaped vacuum in the heart
of very man, and it cannot be filled by
any created thing but only the Creator”
The wise king Solomon also admonished in the book of Ecclesiastes, the entire duty of man in these very piercing words, to quote:
“And further, by these, my son, be admonished:
of making many books there is no end: and much
study is a weariness of the flesh. (v.12)
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this
is the entire duty of man. (v.13)
For God shall bring very work into judgment,
With every secret thing, whether it be good,
Or whether it be evil. (v.14).” 1
1 Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, p 721, (c. 1978), Gideon’s International, KJV.
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