God is Self-sufficient

God is Self-sufficient:  He is the One who contains all, who gives all that is given, but who Himself can receive nothing that He has not first given. 

This attribute of God can bring great comfort to people or greatly disturb them.  Comfort it we know and understand that God alone exists.  As mentioned above in the definition. He is the One who contains all, who give all that is given.  Everything exists by and for Him!  

So why does He need us?  Well, if I was God, I would know the answer!  But, I believe we could simply say that it was out of His love and His desire for fellowship with His creation that He created you and me.

Now the attribute will disturb people if they believe there is no God and if they believe they in themselves are sufficient…..that they need no one.  “I am self-sufficient!”  

Let the Bible speak for the self-sufficiency of God: 

“Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer,

and the one who formed you from the womb,

"I, the LORD, am the maker of all things,

Stretching out the heavens by Myself

And spreading out the earth all alone,” Isaiah 33:24  

³³ Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! ³⁴ For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR? ³⁵ Or WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM THAT IT MIGHT BE PAID BACK TO HIM AGAIN? ³⁶ For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen. Romans 11:33-36

²⁴ “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. ²⁵ And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. ²⁶ From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. ²⁷ God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ²⁸ ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’  Acts 17:24-28

“For every animal of the forest is mine,
   and the cattle on a thousand hills.
¹¹ I know every bird in the mountains,
   and the creatures of the field are mine.
¹² If I were hungry I would not tell you,
   for the world is mine, and all that is in it.” Psalm 50:10-12 

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.”  Acts 14:15 

“Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.” 2 Cor. 3:5

“For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.”  Colossians 1:16

King David declared in Psalm 100:

¹ Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth.
² Serve the LORD with gladness;
Come before Him with joyful singing.
³ Know that the LORD Himself is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. 

Friends, “know that the LORD Himself is God.”

• ·        He is the only living and true God

• ·        He is infinitely perfect

• ·        He is self-existent

• ·        He is self-sufficient

·        He is the spring from which all of our being proceeds.

And know that “It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;”

            He made us.

            We did not make ourselves.