God has needs. We are not thinking enough about this in America. Our sermons and books always seem to focus on what we are going to get from God or how we can use God in some manner. We are far too self-centered. We are seeking power or wisdom or money or healing. It is time we began to think about seeking God and finding out what it is that will please Him.

God needs and desires a house. God needs and desires a resting place. Have you ever thought about that?

At the present time God's great Throne is in Heaven in the spirit realm.

It seems in time past there was a rebellion against God on the part of a considerable number of angels led by Satan, the cherub. Apparently the rebellion of the angels caused the Lord God to enter a state of unrest.

God cast about in His mind for a solution. He then decided to bypass the angels and create a new race of creatures called "man," the angels acting as servants to the new race. The new creatures will be made with a capacity for union with God, having in themselves a throne room, so to speak. Through them God will govern His universe.

All fine and good.

However, the rebels from Heaven immediately seduced "man." They injected into man's natural love for his environment an unclean spirit of "worldliness" so he would turn away from God and find security and survival in his surroundings.

They injected into man's natural appetites and passions an unclean spirit of lust and romanticism—burning desires that cause him to worship his own inflamed and exalted lusts.

They injected into man's will, the will God gave him so he could choose to love and serve God, an unclean spirit of self-will, self-centeredness, self-love so he would not eat what he was supposed to eat, and eat what he was not supposed to eat.

Now man is like Satan, who is hideously bound in his own self-love—the most horrid of all prisons.

This leaves God without the throne, house, or rest that He needs and desires.

God loves the world—the people of the world, not the spirit of Antichrist that is in the world. But there is no way in which God can live among the nations He has created.

God came to earth in Jesus Christ. But people mocked Him, beat Him, and finally crucified Him.

If God were to walk among people today the same thing would take place. For one thing, the religious people would never believe He actually was what He claimed to be.

So God has a great plan. God's plan began with Adam and Eve, the ancestors of the human race. The descendants of Adam and Eve have provided God with numerous people to love. Then God called out Abraham, tested him to the limit in obedience, and then promised Abraham that in his Seed all the nations of the earth would be blessed.

To be continued.