The Attributes of God (Part 4): Independence
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. (Acts 17:24-25) From the time we can crawl, we are trying to gain our independence. We walk, we run, we climb the highest tower of the jungle gym. From there, we cannot wait to gain our first proof of the world acknowledging our independence, a plastic card that makes it legal for us to peel out of the driveway alone in gloriously gleaming metal on wheels. The next step to independence is getting a job so we can make enough money to leave our parents’ house for the autonomy of adulthood. But in all this, we are never truly independent. We neither made ourselves nor can we make it by ourselves. We have needs—lots of them. However, there is one being who needs nothing at all and is truly independent from the rest of c...