There Is Something Rather Than Nothing - God’s Self-sufficiency
If God is self-sufficient, why are we here?
Daniel 6:26
I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel,
for he is the living God,
enduring forever;
his kingdom shall never be destroyed,
and his dominion shall be to the end. (ESV)
Psalm 90:1–2
Book Four
From Everlasting to Everlasting
A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.
Lord, you have been our dwelling place
in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God. (ESV)
Why is there something rather than nothing?
“In order for anything to exist, an uncaused something, or someone, must exist. It is not an uncaused effect that must exist, for there can be no such thing. Self-creation, an uncaused effect, may be an illogical contradiction, but a self-existent, “uncaused cause” is not.
This “uncaused cause” must have the power of being within itself—it must exist in and of itself. This cause must be eternal, for that which does not exist cannot later bring itself into existence. Moreover, this cause must be personal for an impersonal one could not create personal beings. Only a personal, self-existent God can answer the question: “Why is there something rather than nothing?”” - https://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/gods-self-existence/
Why are we here? What is our purpose?
“The answer is NOT that God was lonely and needed fellowship. Ps 50 - he’s offended and dishonored to think so.
Rather, particularly in relation to his people, the answer it this: though he doesn’t need us, he loves us, and his purpose in creating and redeeming us is not that we might fill up some lack in him, but that he might fill us up with himself. He made us empty to be filled with his fullness, thirsty to drink of the water of life, weak to receive his strength, foolish to be instructed and corrected by his wisdom. In his love, he longs to give, to share the bounty. He wants us to experience in finite measure the fullness of joy and blessing that he knows infinitely-all to redound to the praise and glory of his name, the Giver and Provider of all the good we enjoy.
C. S. Lewis, in his The Problem of Pain, says that God’s love is not like ours, helping another while needing also to be helped. No, God’s love, says Lewis, is “bottomlessly selfless, by very definition; it has everything to give and nothing to receive” (p. 50).”” - Dr. Bruce Ware (https://www.yourchurch.com/sermon/beholding-the-god-of-self-sufficient-fullness-think09/)