Needs

There is one sense in which it is good to think about our needs - to realize we have them and that we are, thus, dependent on God for everything in our lives, regardless of how greatly we wish we could dictate and control it all ourselves. This honest recognition and admission of our needs helps us to be humble before God, and eats away at our pride.

There is another sense, however, in which it is not good to think about our needs. Meeting our needs should never be as important to us as meeting the needs of other people. I most definitely don't live up to that! But I desire to do so. To set aside my own needs (and even more, my wants disguised as needs) to focus on meeting the needs of other people in my life is a goal worth pursuing, I think.

You know the funny thing about it, though? If I don't first recognize my own need for repentance and for God's grace, I will never be able to focus thoroughly on the needs of others, because only His grace can give me that power.