Being Needy

 I heard someone say that a certain man's criteria for a future wife was that she "wasn't needy". Now I get what he was probably saying; a woman who is independent, strong, emotionally self sufficient, possibly economically self sufficient...I don't know.

But it got me thinking; being needy in our culture today is thought of in a negative light...and can be an issue. 

BUT....as Christ followers aren't we supposed to be "needy"

Aren't we supposed to need Christ and His salvation?

📖 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:8-9

Need to read and study His work daily?

📖 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 

2 Timothy 3:16-17

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15

Need to communicate with Him through prayer and meditation?

📖 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

 “This, then, is how you should pray: 

 “‘Our Father in heaven,  hallowed be your name, your kingdom come,  your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,    as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.   For if you forgive other people when they sin against    you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. Matthew 5:5-15

Need to recognize our sin and our need for a savior

📖 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.  Romans 3:23-24

We need His love...He desires ours 

📖 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17

📖 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”  Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ Matthew 22:36-37

🙏So today, I pray you are as needy as I am! ❤