Imagine a 4 year old boy going to work with his daddy on a construction site. He puts on his tool belt with plastic tools, his toy hardhat and cowboy boots… he is ready to do the hard labor with his father… huge smile on his face as he gets into the truck. When his dad puts on sun glasses, he does too. When dad is hammering he lets his son hit a couple of times too. When dad is cutting wood, his son is on the side going through the motions of cutting wood with his pretend saw.
Is the boy actually contributing anything to get the job done? not at all… in fact he would probably he a hindrance to completing a project quickly. Is the boy proud to be working with daddy?
God needs me… and God doesn’t really need me at all. In fact, my ideas make things worse… and he allows that sometimes. The results are not his primary aim – the relationship is. God wants it to be a team effort between him and I… not because I have anything to bring to the table, but because i am his child, and he wants to involve me.
