Lonely God

I posed a question in my last blog. It was a question I didn't know the answer to right away, and still don't really know. What are God's motives for helping the Israelites? For telling them the law and to worship Him? For freeing them from Egypt and returning them to Canaan? Surely there is a reason. Nobody does anything just because. (But then again, maybe God was just bored and needed something to do.) It's hard to look inside His mind, because it's different from our own. I can only conjure up guesses by what He actually says and does. The answer I come to is this: God is lonely.

He needs the Israelites to talk with Him, to worship Him, to love Him. He needs companionship, love, and conversation. Isn't that why He created humans in the first place? Because He was a lonely God. Maybe He is so terrified to be left alone that he will do anything to keep his followers believing in his power. God is like a man who beats and abuses his wife so she won't leave him. He is terrified what the world would be like without her, so he does the only thing he knows how: violence and destruction. What if God needs us more than we need Him?

I will follow up tomorrow, still got a lot of studying to do.