God is all sovereign, all powerful, and he is all happy in himself, he lacks nothing. And he wants things from us. So does he need us or need what

we can give him? Matthew is trying to put these pieces together in his email to us today.

Pastor John, hello and thank you for your ministry, Matthew writes.

Early in your wonderful book Providence on page 43, you talk about how God has full glory.

We don't give him any glory he doesn't inherently possess already.

What God creates is never essential to God. That seems to be the point of Act 1725. So we ascribe glory to God, the only God, and we ascribe that glory to Him

before all time, before creation even existed, Jude 25.

Considering this, does this mean that if we glorify God by enjoying Him,

we can say that He created us not because he needed anything from us, but that he created us solely to share

in his delight of delighting in himself.

In other words, God's self- in himself seems to have nothing to do with his neediness, but it is the greatest gift conceivable to the creation.

That God is self-sufficiently happy in himself is the best news in the world

for us to hear.

Am I following your line of thought here?

And if so, wow.

Yes, wow indeed, and Matthew is following me.

Number one, God is self-sufficiently happy in himself.

Number two, God created us not because he needed anything from us.

He has no needs, no deficiencies. Number three, he created us so that we would share

in the delight that he has in himself.

So those three points, he's tracking perfectly

with what I think and what I believe the Bible teaches.

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