If God Doesn't Need Us, Why Are We Here?

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Why do we "have" to love God? It seems very self-centered of God to demand our love. But is it?

Today, Fr. Mike opens up the first sentence of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and helps us to understand more fully why God, who was never lonely in Heaven, chose to freely create us to be in relationship with Him.

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0:00.0	So someone sent me this four-way stretch clergy shirt,
0:03.1	and I was like, wow, it's really comfortable.
0:05.3	I don't know if this shirt is too wrinkly or not.
0:07.3	I didn't wash it yet.
0:08.2	I just put it on.
0:09.8	So it's clean or it's not, you know what I mean?
0:12.4	It's either really clean or it's really not clean.
0:14.6	I don't know which one.
0:15.8	But it's kind of wrinkly, but right now,
0:17.7	it's also the shirt that I have on.
0:20.2	My name is Father Mike Schmitz,
0:21.2	and this is a sentence that presents.
0:22.4	So I was asked this question,
0:24.6	and I actually had been asked this question a number of times.
0:26.5	The question is, why do we have to love God?
0:28.9	Like it seems very arrogant.
0:30.9	It seems very self-centered of God to ask that we love Him,
0:36.2	to ask that we worship Him.
0:37.3	It seems very self-centered of God
0:38.9	that he asks that we serve Him.
0:41.2	And so is it?
0:42.5	That's the big question.
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