Needing God: Part III

Next, what if the focus is on our unique human identities?

he/she needs God: Our unbiased Lord’s offer of salvation and grace is not just for men or just for women – it is for everyone. However, we need to understand that because God initiated gender when He created us male and female (Gen. 5:2) in the garden, He embraces those differences within us.

So what is the significance of the “he/she” need of God? It seems that within our human natures, there is a gender-specific need for God for us to be able to fulfill our natural and spiritual roles in a balanced and godly way.

Women are more than just female humans: we are mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, aunts, grandmothers. Men are more than just male humans: they are fathers, husbands, brothers, uncles, grandfathers.

So what does it mean to need God as a mother? Or as a wife? How about as a husband? Or an uncle? These roles that very often define our attitudes and behaviors can be ministries through which we express God’s heart to a lonely and hurting world.

If we keep the responsibilities and the demands of those unique roles apart from God, we often fall into living a conventionally dull and routine life. Instead of allowing His Spirit to ignite those seemingly ordinary aspects of our relational selves, we settle for a “business as usual” state of being.

Perhaps the question is whether we compartmentalize God, keeping Him out of certain areas of our lives, especially the parts that we are good at. When we allow God to meet us on our most basic levels, we begin to understand just how deep and how wide His love is for us.

Creator of all, I come to You as You made me – and I bring all of the roles that my life is expressed through. Sanctify this life – it is Yours.

Check out: Hebrews 13:20-21