Why did God create us?

It's a grand and glorious question, and it touches on the biggest issues of our lives

that we can really ever ask about.

It's also today's question from an APJ listener named Natalie.

She writes, and Pastor John, thank you so much for this podcast.

I listen to every episode.

I am a thinker, an overthinker, probably, and of late, my mind has been dwelling on the

sufficiency of God himself, that he needs no one or nothing that he creates.

I affirm Acts 17, 25, and Psalm 50 verses 7 to 15.

But the question I cannot answer is this, Pastor John, why did God create us?

This question is very important, both because of very high-level theological and philosophical

reasons, and because when the alarm goes off this morning at 5 or 6 or 7, how you answer

this question makes all the difference for why you get out of bed.

So at the theological and philosophical level, the question is important because the way

you answer it has a huge impact on the way you understand the nature of God himself,

that is, what does it mean to be God?

The technical name here that people debate is God's acity, A-S-E-I-T-Y, the word acity

built on the Latin words A or A, which means from and C, which means self.

So from himself, God's acity is his existence from himself.

That is, he exists without influence or input or resources or forces or anything from outside

himself or the shorthand way to say acity in common English would be God's self-sufficiency.

This is important because the biblical picture of God is that he is complete and sufficient

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