“Advice is like snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English Poet

The essence of inequity is to believe that we should be like God; it is to believe that God should be like us–to believe that God is like us with a larger estate. When we think like this we create an idol. God of our imagining is unworthy of worship and we are deprived of the privilege of worshiping the Triune God for which we were made.

The aseity of God is the refrain of all of Scripture. He is autonomous, self-derived, and depends on nothing. Asceity is a philosophical idea, yet it is implicit in our worship and reverence for the Lord. 

Unlike humanity, God needs no one outside himself in order to love and be loved. He Himself is both Lover and the great Beloved. God freely created the world and everything in it. He then entered it to save us, not to meet a need of his own. 

“For it is by grace you have been saved..it is the gift of God…” Ephesians 2:8 

We bring to the self-sufficient, self-derived God the vast opposite of aseity. We bring him our sin—and our need. As Jonathan Edwards wrote: “The only thing we contribute to our salvation is the sin that makes it necessary.” And God forgives us through His Son Jesus Christ by His grace. 

Pray: 

Heavenly Father, 

The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, the world, and those who live in it. 

By your grace we are Yours. You are the First and the Last; apart from you, there is no other God.

Amen (From Psalm 24, Isaiah 44)