The Solitariness of God - Part Four

I woke up early this morning, probably due to too much caffeine yesterday. It's not too bad because it enabled me to focus even more on the Attributes of God book by A. W. Pink.

In Chapter 1 of The Solitariness of God, Pink quotes Genesis 1:1, and then says this:

"There was nothing, no one, but God; and that, not for a day, a year, or an age, but "from everlasting." During a past eternity, God was alone: self-contained, self-sufficient, self-satisfied; in need of nothing. Had a universe, had angels, had human beings been necessary to Him in any way, they also had been called into existence from all eternity. The creating of them when He did, added nothing to God essentially. He changes not (Malachi 3:6), therefore His essential glory can be neither augmented nor diminished.

God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure; for He worketh all things after the counsel of His will. (Ephesians 1:11)."

Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning"

Malachi 3:6 “For I the Lord do not change"

Ephesians 1:11 "In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,"

God is not powerless, waiting for us to choose Him, nor is He powerless, waiting for us to do anything for Him. He doesn't need us, we need Him. We are dependent upon Him for every little thing, we can't even take a breath apart from Him giving us our next breath. It might be nice for us to think that He needs us, but the reality is that He doesn't. The truth is that we need Him, and apart from Him we can do nothing, and in Him we live and move, and have our being.

John 15:5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing."

Acts 17:28 “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, "‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

If you have not read, nor studied Pink's book, I encourage you to do so because it is very thought provoking.

May your Lord's Day be blessed today.