"Who Has Ever Given To GOD, That GOD Should Repay HIM?"

It is not because HE needs them!
(Charles Spurgeon, "A Good Start!")

"GOD is not served by human hands, 

as if HE needed anything--

because HE HIMSELF gives all men 

life and breath and everything else!" 

Acts 17:25 

Let no man imagine that GOD needs 

any of us. HE was perfect--

perfectly happy and perfectly glorious--

long before wing of angel moved 

in space, or time even existed! 

GOD ever was and still is self-contained 

and all-sufficient. If HE chooses to make 

any creatures, or to preserve or use any 

of the creatures HE has formed--

it is not because HE needs them, 

or is in the least degree dependent 

upon them.

"Surely the nations are like a drop in 

a bucket; they are regarded as dust on 

the scales; HE weighs the islands as 

though they were fine dust. Lebanon 

is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its 

animals enough for burnt offerings. 

Before HIM all the nations are as 

nothing; they are regarded by HIM 

as worthless and less than nothing. 

To whom, then, will you compare GOD? 

What image will you compare HIM to?" 

Isaiah 40:15-18

"Do you not know? Have you not heard? 

Has it not been told you from the beginning? 

Have you not understood since the earth was 

founded? HE sits enthroned above the circle 

of the earth, and its people are like 

grasshoppers. HE stretches out the heavens 

like a canopy, and spreads them out like 

a tent to live in. HE brings princes to naught, 

and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing!" 

Isaiah 40:21-23

"I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats 

from your pens, for every animal of the forest 

is MINE, and the cattle on a thousand hills! 

I know every bird in the mountains, and 

the creatures of the field are MINE! 

If I were hungry I would not tell you, 

for the world is MINE, and all that is in it!" 

Psalm 50:9-12

"Who has ever given to GOD, that GOD 

should repay HIM? For from HIM and through 

HIM and to HIM are all things. To HIM be 

the glory forever! Amen."  Romans 11:35-36

   

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GraceGems has published J.R. Miller's insightful short article,

 "The Practice of Immortality".