Human Existence Depends Upon the Creator

The question of why we need God begins with the more fundamental truth that human beings exist because God created them rather than because they are self-originating and self-sustaining. Genesis 1:1 begins Scripture by identifying God as the Creator of the heavens and the earth, placing all created reality in a dependent relationship to Him. Genesis 2:7 then describes Jehovah forming the first man and giving him life, establishing that human existence is received rather than self-generated. Paul makes the point directly in Acts 17:24-25 when he explains that the God who made the world is not dependent upon human service as though He needed something from humans, because He Himself gives everyone life, breath, and all things. Acts 17:28 adds that in relation to God humans live, move, and exist, reminding Paul’s audience that creaturely life cannot be understood as independent of the Creator. Every breath, heartbeat, intellectual achievement, friendship, meal, discovery, and human project occurs within a life that no individual originally gave himself. Modern technology can alter many circumstances of life but cannot explain away the Creator upon whom the existence of life ultimately depends. We need God first because we are creatures and He is the source of the existence we possess.

Human dependence remains true even when people deny God because disbelief does not change the origin or structure of reality. A person may deny needing oxygen, but the denial does not alter the biological dependence of the body upon it, and the same logical distinction applies on a far greater scale to creaturely dependence upon the Creator. Psalm 100:3 tells worshipers to know that Jehovah is God, that He made us, and that we belong to Him, joining creation with rightful divine authority. The fact that God made humans means that human life has an objective purpose not created merely by individual preference. A machine’s designer understands its intended operation more completely than a stranger encountering the machine for the first time, although the Creator-human relationship is infinitely greater than any human analogy can express. Jehovah understands human nature, moral responsibility, relationships, sexuality, worship, work, family, death, and the path to everlasting life because He is the One who gave humanity its existence. Rejecting Him therefore removes the only completely authoritative foundation for answering what humans are and what they are for. We need God because without the Creator we are left attempting to define the purpose of created life while excluding the One responsible for creating it.

We Need God to Understand Who We Are

Human beings have always asked questions about identity, dignity, morality, meaning, suffering, death, and the purpose of life. Scripture answers these questions by beginning with creation in God’s image rather than with economics, social status, personal desire, biological appetite, or human political systems. Genesis 1:26-27 says that male and female humans were created in God’s image, identifying humanity as morally responsible creatures uniquely suited to represent qualities associated with their Creator. This explains why human life has value beyond usefulness, productivity, intelligence, physical strength, or social influence. A newborn child, an elderly person, a physically disabled person, and an unknown laborer do not possess different amounts of basic human worth according to how much economic output they can produce. Their value rests in the kind of beings Jehovah created them to be. Psalm 8:4-6 marvels at the attention God gives humanity and at the responsibility entrusted to humans within creation. We need God because knowledge of our Creator prevents identity from being reduced to whatever label, achievement, desire, failure, or opinion happens to dominate a particular moment.

Scripture also prevents human dignity from turning into human self-worship. Being made in God’s image does not mean that humans are gods, possess unlimited autonomy, or have authority to redefine good and evil according to preference. Genesis 2-3 shows that the first rebellion centered precisely on rejecting God’s authority and taking an independent course concerning moral knowledge. The consequences included alienation, shame, conflict, suffering, and death, demonstrating that human flourishing cannot be separated from the Creator’s moral order. Ecclesiastes 12:13 identifies fearing God and keeping His commandments as fundamental human responsibility, locating meaning in reverent obedience rather than endless pursuit of pleasure, wealth, recognition, or novelty. Jesus similarly taught in Matthew 4:4 that humans do not live by bread alone but by every word proceeding from God, showing that material existence by itself does not satisfy the whole purpose for which humans were created. We need food, shelter, relationships, productive work, and physical care, but none of these replaces our need for truth from the Creator. We need God because only He can authoritatively tell human beings what they are, why they exist, and how life should be lived.

We Need God Because Human Wisdom Is Limited

Human knowledge has achieved remarkable results, yet it remains limited, fallible, and unable to answer every ultimate question. Medicine can treat many diseases but cannot grant permanent immunity from death, engineering can build extraordinary structures but cannot create existence from nothing, and communication technology can connect continents without making human beings morally wise. Jeremiah 10:23 states that the way of man does not belong to himself and that it is not in a walking man to direct his own steps successfully apart from God. The verse does not deny the ordinary capacity to make daily decisions; it denies humanity’s ability to establish a successful independent course while disregarding Jehovah’s authority. Proverbs 14:12 warns that a way can appear right to a person while ultimately leading to death, exposing the weakness of making subjective confidence the standard of truth. Human history repeatedly demonstrates that intelligence can be used for noble or destructive purposes depending upon the moral character directing it. Scientific knowledge can heal disease or develop weapons, financial expertise can create useful businesses or sophisticated fraud, and persuasive ability can teach truth or manipulate listeners. We therefore need something more than intelligence; we need the moral and spiritual guidance of the God whose knowledge is perfect.

Psalm 119:105 describes God’s Word as a lamp for the foot and a light for the path, portraying Scripture as practical guidance in a morally dark world. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 explains how that guidance operates by teaching, reproving, correcting, and training a servant of God in righteousness. Scripture does not provide technical instructions for repairing an engine, performing surgery, or designing a bridge, because those are not the purposes for which the Bible was given. It does provide authoritative truth regarding worship, honesty, sexuality, marriage, forgiveness, greed, anger, justice, speech, family responsibility, faith, repentance, salvation, and eternal hope. A skilled professional can therefore be technically brilliant while remaining morally lost if he refuses the standards of the Creator. Biblical wisdom also addresses motives, not merely visible outcomes, because Jehovah evaluates the heart behind human action. Hebrews 4:12 says that God’s Word judges thoughts and intentions, reaching beneath external behavior to the moral source from which conduct flows. We need God because information alone cannot make humans righteous, and His Spirit-inspired Word supplies the moral truth human intelligence cannot manufacture for itself.

We Need God Because We Have Sinned

Humanity’s need for God becomes even more urgent when Scripture describes the universal condition of sin. Romans 3:23 says plainly that all have sinned and fall short of God’s glory, leaving no class of naturally righteous people who have no need of forgiveness. Sin includes not only dramatic crimes but every departure from Jehovah’s righteous standard in thought, motive, word, and conduct. Jesus showed in Matthew 5 that hatred, lustful desire, dishonest speech, and vindictive attitudes reveal moral corruption beneath outward appearances, thereby preventing people from defining righteousness merely by comparing themselves with worse offenders. Someone may truthfully say that he has never committed murder while still being dishonest, sexually immoral, greedy, hateful, proud, unforgiving, or indifferent to God. Human comparison is therefore an unreliable way to determine moral standing because Jehovah’s standard, not the behavior of our neighbors, defines sin. Romans 6:23 identifies the wages of sin as death, making sin a life-and-death problem rather than a minor defect requiring only self-improvement. We need God because no sinner can declare himself innocent by lowering the standard after violating it.

Neither good intentions nor later good deeds erase past guilt automatically. A thief who donates money after stealing does not make the theft historically nonexistent, and a liar who later tells several truths has not thereby transformed the former lie into righteousness. Human legal systems recognize the same basic principle whenever later good behavior does not cancel accountability for a serious offense already committed. Jehovah’s perfect justice therefore cannot be satisfied by pretending sin never mattered. Psalm 51 shows David acknowledging wrongdoing before God rather than attempting to balance sin against his achievements as king. Proverbs 28:13 likewise teaches that concealing transgression is not the path to success, whereas confession and abandonment of wrongdoing are associated with mercy. Genuine repentance accepts God’s judgment about sin and changes direction instead of redefining the conduct to protect self-esteem. We need God because He alone possesses both the authority to judge sin and the ability to provide a righteous basis for forgiveness.

We Need God Because We Cannot Save Ourselves

The gospel becomes good news only when humanity’s inability to solve its own deepest problem is understood. No sinner can travel backward through time and undo every wrong act, word, motive, and harmful consequence produced by sin. No human can manufacture a sacrifice adequate to reconcile himself to the perfectly righteous Creator, and no person can command death to release him permanently from the grave. Jehovah therefore acted on humanity’s behalf by sending Jesus Christ. John 3:16 says that God loved the world and gave His only-begotten Son so that those exercising faith in Him might receive everlasting life. Romans 5:8 adds that God demonstrated His love through Christ’s death for sinners, placing the initiative for reconciliation with God rather than with human achievement. 1 Peter 2:24 explains that Jesus bore sins in His body so that believers could die to sin and live to righteousness. We need God because salvation is something He provides, not something humans construct.

The sacrifice of Christ also demonstrates that forgiveness is neither arbitrary nor morally careless. Jehovah did not respond to sin by announcing that righteousness no longer mattered, because such a response would contradict His own holy character. Romans 3:24-26 connects redemption in Christ with the demonstration of God’s righteousness, showing that mercy operates consistently with justice. Jesus’ sacrificial death provides the divinely appointed basis upon which repentant believers can receive forgiveness and reconciliation. Acts 4:12 therefore declares that salvation is found in no other name under heaven given among humans, emphasizing the uniqueness of Christ within God’s arrangement. This exclusivity is not human arrogance but submission to what Jehovah Himself has revealed about the remedy for sin. A physician is not narrow-minded for identifying the one treatment that actually addresses a particular fatal condition, and Scripture presents the human spiritual condition as requiring the specific remedy God has supplied. We need God because only He can provide the ransom sacrifice, forgiveness, reconciliation, resurrection, and everlasting life that sinners cannot give themselves.

We Need God for Reconciliation

Sin does more than produce guilt; it disrupts the relationship humans were created to have with their Creator. Romans 5:10 speaks of people being reconciled to God through the death of His Son, which means that hostility and alienation must be overcome rather than treated as imaginary. 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 likewise describes the message of reconciliation and calls people to “be reconciled to God.” The command shows that God has taken the initiative through Christ while humans remain responsible to respond in faith and repentance. Reconciliation therefore cannot be reduced to feeling spiritual, joining a religious organization, inheriting a family tradition, or adopting Christian vocabulary. It requires accepting Jehovah’s evaluation of sin and accepting the means of peace He has established through Christ. Romans 5:1 associates being declared righteous through faith with peace toward God through Jesus Christ. We need God because the most important relationship a human possesses is the relationship with the One who gave him life and before whom he remains morally accountable.

Reconciliation also changes how a Christian understands obedience. Obedience is not an attempt to purchase God’s love with a sufficient quantity of good deeds, because Christ’s sacrifice cannot be replaced by human merit. At the same time, Scripture never treats saving faith as permission to continue deliberately in sin. Romans 6:1-2 rejects the idea of continuing in sin so that grace may abound, and Romans 6:17-18 connects Christian freedom with becoming obedient from the heart. Jesus commanded His disciples in Matthew 28:20 to observe what He had taught, showing that discipleship includes an ongoing pattern of submission. Salvation is therefore a journey of faithful response involving repentance, faith, baptism, growing knowledge, moral transformation, endurance, and continued reliance upon Jehovah’s arrangement through Christ. The Christian obeys because he has recognized God’s rightful authority and because faith without corresponding conduct is dead according to James 2:17. We need God not only to forgive where we have gone wrong but also to teach us how to walk rightly afterward.

We Need God for an Objective Moral Standard

Without a transcendent moral authority, human beings are left trying to establish ultimate moral obligations from changing human preferences. Individuals, governments, cultures, and generations disagree sharply about what conduct is acceptable, and majority approval has repeatedly supported practices later generations recognized as deeply unjust. Scripture grounds morality in Jehovah’s unchanging righteous character rather than in temporary consensus. Leviticus 19:2 connected Israel’s call to holiness with Jehovah’s own holiness, and 1 Peter 1:15-16 applies the same moral principle to Christians by commanding holiness in conduct. Micah 6:8 requires justice, loyal kindness, and humble walking with God, showing that biblical morality reaches both public behavior and personal character. Proverbs 11:1 condemns dishonest commercial measurements, making economic integrity a spiritual matter because Jehovah cares about truth in ordinary transactions. Ephesians 4:25 commands Christians to put away falsehood and speak truth, while Ephesians 4:28 commands the former thief to work honestly. We need God because moral obligation requires a standard higher than the convenience of the person currently making the decision.

This moral standard also protects people from using religion to excuse evil. Isaiah 1:15-17 condemned worshipers whose religious actions existed alongside wrongdoing and called upon them to remove evil deeds and pursue justice. Jesus rebuked religious leaders in Matthew 23:23 because they emphasized selected ceremonial details while neglecting justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These passages demonstrate that Jehovah cannot be manipulated through religious performance while a person deliberately practices dishonesty, cruelty, exploitation, or sexual immorality. Biblical morality is concrete: employers must act honestly, spouses must remain faithful, parents must care responsibly for children, Christians must reject slander, and worshipers must refuse deceit even when dishonesty offers material advantage. God’s standards therefore confront both private sin and public wrongdoing without permitting the individual to redefine righteousness for convenience. The same standard also restrains revenge because Romans 12:17-21 commands Christians not to repay evil for evil but to overcome evil with good. We need God because only His perfect character provides a stable moral foundation capable of judging both ourselves and the societies in which we live.

We Need God in Our Relationships

Human relationships suffer because imperfect people bring selfishness, pride, anger, fear, jealousy, dishonesty, sexual temptation, and poor judgment into contact with one another. Scripture addresses these problems by giving principles that require Christians to treat relationships as areas of obedience to Jehovah rather than as arenas for unrestricted personal desire. Ephesians 4:31-32 tells believers to put away bitterness, wrath, anger, abusive speech, and malice while becoming kind, compassionate, and forgiving. Colossians 3:19 tells husbands not to become bitter toward their wives, while Ephesians 5:25 requires husbands to love their wives with sacrificial concern modeled on Christ’s love for the congregation. Ephesians 6:1-4 addresses children and fathers, placing family authority under God’s moral standards rather than under arbitrary human power. Matthew 18:15 gives direction for addressing personal wrongdoing directly rather than immediately spreading accusations to others. James 1:19 tells Christians to be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, a practical command capable of preventing many conflicts from escalating. We need God because healthy relationships require more than affection; they require truth, restraint, forgiveness, moral boundaries, humility, and responsibility.

Love itself requires divine definition because human beings often use the word for contradictory behaviors. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 describes love as patient, kind, opposed to envy and arrogance, resistant to selfishness, and rejoicing with truth rather than unrighteousness. Biblical love therefore cannot mean approving every decision another person makes, because love “rejoices with the truth.” Jesus loved people enough to show compassion while also commanding repentance and exposing hypocrisy. Parents love children not by allowing every dangerous desire but by giving instruction, boundaries, correction, protection, and care. Christian friends likewise show love by refusing gossip, speaking truth respectfully, providing practical help, forgiving repentant wrongdoing, and refusing to participate in sin merely to preserve popularity. 1 John 4:19 says that Christians love because God first loved them, making divine love the pattern and source of Christian moral response. We need God because human love is healthiest when it learns from the Creator whose own character defines what faithful love actually is.

We Need God When Life Becomes Painful

Human life includes suffering that intelligence, planning, money, and social connections cannot always prevent. Disease can strike physically careful people, bereavement can reach loving families, injustice can affect honest workers, accidents can alter plans, and betrayal can come from someone who once appeared trustworthy. Scripture does not teach that every difficulty comes directly from Jehovah, because human imperfection, sinful choices, Satan, demons, natural limitations, and a wicked world account for the painful conditions within present human experience. Jesus acknowledged the reality of persecution and hatred toward His disciples rather than promising that faith would produce uninterrupted comfort. Paul likewise endured imprisonment, hostility, hunger, physical suffering, and repeated opposition while faithfully carrying out Christ’s commission. The need for God therefore cannot be measured by whether He instantly prevents every painful event. Instead, His Word supplies truth, moral direction, prayer, hope, and the assurance that present suffering does not represent His permanent purpose for obedient humanity. We need God because suffering raises questions that temporary comfort alone cannot answer.

Prayer becomes especially important in such circumstances because it openly expresses dependence upon Jehovah. Philippians 4:6-7 directs believers to bring concerns before God with prayer, supplication, and thanksgiving rather than permitting anxiety to govern the mind without restraint. 1 Peter 5:7 similarly encourages Christians to cast anxiety upon God because He cares for them. Prayer does not eliminate the responsibility to take reasonable action, seek appropriate help, work honestly, communicate truthfully, or care for bodily needs. Elijah in 1 Kings 19 received food and rest during exhaustion, demonstrating that ordinary creaturely needs should not be treated as signs of spiritual failure. Christians therefore pray while also carrying out the responsibilities Scripture and sound judgment place before them. Jehovah’s servants are neither self-sufficient machines nor passive people waiting for miraculous solutions to responsibilities they can address. We need God because He gives the truth and hope within which responsible human action can be pursued without pretending that humans control everything.

We Need God Because Death Is an Enemy We Cannot Defeat

Every human project eventually encounters the reality of death. Wealth may improve comfort but cannot purchase endless life, medical knowledge may lengthen life but cannot remove mortality permanently, and human affection cannot command a dead loved one to return. Scripture treats death as the consequence of sin and as an enemy rather than as humanity’s natural gateway into conscious disembodied existence. Genesis 2:7 describes man becoming a living soul, not receiving an independently immortal soul that can never cease to exist. Ezekiel 18:4 states that the soul who sins will die, demonstrating that the biblical soul is mortal. Ecclesiastes 9:5 says that the dead know nothing, while the biblical hope consistently looks toward resurrection for restoration of life. Jesus promised in John 5:28-29 that those in the memorial tombs will hear His voice and come out. We need God because only the Creator who originally gives life possesses the power and authority to restore the dead.

The resurrection of Jesus provides the historical and theological foundation for Christian confidence in that future. 1 Corinthians 15:20 calls Christ the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep in death, connecting His resurrection with the future resurrection of others. Paul argues throughout 1 Corinthians 15 that without resurrection Christian faith would be empty, showing that Christianity does not rest its hope upon an inherently indestructible human soul. Romans 6:23 says that eternal life is “the gift of God,” meaning everlasting life is bestowed rather than naturally possessed by every human being. Revelation 21:4 promises the removal of death, mourning, crying, and pain, presenting God’s future purpose as the defeat of conditions humans cannot permanently cure. Psalm 37:29 says that the righteous will possess the land and dwell upon it forever, while Matthew 5:5 confirms that the meek will inherit the earth. Jehovah therefore offers more than survival of present difficulties; He offers the possibility of everlasting life according to His purpose. We need God because death exposes the absolute limit of human self-sufficiency and directs us toward the Creator who alone can reverse it.

We Need God for a Future Greater Than the Present World

If present human society were the final horizon of existence, many injustices would remain permanently unresolved and every human accomplishment would eventually end in death. Scripture instead teaches that history is moving toward Jehovah’s appointed resolution under the kingship of Christ. Daniel 2:44 foretells God’s kingdom bringing human political dominion to an end and standing forever, directing hope toward divine rule rather than endless repetition of flawed human systems. Revelation 20 places Christ’s return before the thousand-year reign, presenting a future period of Messianic rule rather than identifying the present age as the completed kingdom condition. Revelation 21 then describes the removal of death and pain within the final restored order of God’s purpose. Christians therefore do not place ultimate confidence in governments, economies, technology, or cultural movements to produce the permanent conditions Scripture promises. Human institutions can accomplish relative good and restrain certain wrongs, but they cannot eliminate sin, Satan, death, and every consequence of human rebellion. We need God because only His kingdom possesses the authority and power necessary to accomplish permanent restoration.

This future hope has immediate moral consequences because people expecting Jehovah’s righteous order are called to live according to His standards now. 2 Peter 3:11 asks what sort of people Christians ought to be in holy conduct and godliness while looking toward the fulfillment of God’s promises. Hope therefore does not encourage withdrawal from responsibility but strengthens faithfulness within present responsibilities. A Christian expecting a righteous future has reason to practice honesty now, maintain sexual purity now, forgive now, worship Jehovah now, evangelize now, care for family now, and refuse corruption now. Matthew 24:14 connects the good news of the kingdom with worldwide proclamation, establishing evangelism as an obligation rather than a specialized activity for a small professional class. Christians who know the hope are responsible to explain it to others with accuracy, courage, and respect. Jehovah’s future purpose therefore gives present Christian conduct direction and urgency. We need God because without His revealed future, humanity possesses no comparable basis for confidence that sin and death will actually be defeated.

We Need God More Than We Need Religious Appearance

Acknowledging human need for God does not mean that any form of religion automatically satisfies that need. Jesus repeatedly warned against religious hypocrisy, especially when outward devotion concealed inward corruption. Matthew 15:7-9 applies Isaiah’s warning to people who honored God with their lips while their hearts remained far from Him, showing that religious speech can coexist with spiritual alienation. Matthew 7:21 says that not everyone calling Jesus “Lord” will enter the kingdom, because doing the Father’s will matters. James 1:22 similarly warns people not merely to hear the Word but to become doers of it. A Bible on a shelf, attendance at worship, Christian vocabulary, baptismal history, or family membership in a church cannot substitute for personal faith and obedience. Jehovah requires worship “in spirit and truth” according to John 4:24, which makes truthfulness about both doctrine and conduct essential. We need God Himself as He has revealed Himself, not merely the social identity that comes from appearing religious.

This is why serious Bible study remains indispensable to Christian life. Acts 17:11 praises people who carefully examined the Scriptures daily to determine whether what they were hearing was true. 2 Timothy 2:15 urges the servant of God to handle the word of truth accurately, emphasizing disciplined interpretation rather than casual use of isolated phrases. The historical-grammatical method asks what the biblical author meant according to context, grammar, vocabulary, historical circumstances, and literary form. This approach protects believers from allegory, invented typology, subjective interpretations, and doctrines created by taking verses out of context. Scripture becomes the controlling authority rather than a collection of sentences recruited to support ideas brought from somewhere else. The Christian who recognizes his need for God therefore becomes a student of the Word through which God has revealed His will. We need God, and because He has chosen to guide us through His Spirit-inspired Word, needing God necessarily includes needing the truth He has caused to be written.

We Need God Every Day, Not Merely at the End of Life

Some people think seriously about God only when death, illness, disaster, or another crisis forces attention toward questions usually ignored. Scripture presents dependence upon Jehovah as an everyday reality rather than emergency equipment stored away until ordinary human resources fail. Jesus taught His disciples to pray for daily bread, forgiveness, and protection in Matthew 6:9-13, placing ordinary daily existence within conscious dependence upon the Father. Proverbs 3:5-6 directs the worshiper to trust in Jehovah rather than lean upon his own understanding and to acknowledge Him in his paths. This trust does not require abandoning careful thought, because Scripture repeatedly praises wisdom, knowledge, planning, hard work, and responsible conduct. It means human reasoning functions under God’s authority rather than declaring independence from it. Colossians 3:17 calls Christians to conduct their words and actions in the name of the Lord Jesus while giving thanks to God the Father. We need God on an ordinary Tuesday as genuinely as we need Him beside a hospital bed or at a funeral.

Daily dependence becomes concrete through regular engagement with Scripture, prayer, worship, repentance, ethical work, family responsibility, Christian fellowship, and evangelism. Joshua 1:8 connected meditation on God’s written instruction with careful obedience, establishing a pattern in which knowledge is meant to govern conduct. Psalm 1 describes the person who delights in Jehovah’s instruction and meditates on it continually as stable and fruitful rather than morally rootless. A Christian therefore develops habits that keep biblical truth active in the mind because the world continuously supplies competing ideas about success, pleasure, identity, morality, and meaning. Prayer expresses dependence, Scripture provides authoritative guidance, Christian fellowship supplies mutual encouragement, and obedience puts learned truth into practice. None of these actions earns life as wages from God; they belong to the faithful path of a person who recognizes Jehovah’s authority and responds to His undeserved kindness. Christianity is not merely agreement with doctrines about God but life consciously ordered around the reality that He exists, has spoken, has sent His Son, and will judge mankind through Christ. We need God every day because every day we remain dependent creatures, imperfect sinners, morally responsible persons, and recipients of opportunities to choose whether we will walk according to His Word.

Our Greatest Need Is Reconciliation With Jehovah

Human beings possess many genuine needs, including food, shelter, safety, companionship, work, rest, and loving relationships, but none outranks the need to be reconciled with Jehovah. Jesus expressed this hierarchy in Matthew 6:33 when He instructed His disciples to seek first God’s kingdom and righteousness rather than allowing material concerns to dominate their lives. His words do not make food and clothing unimportant, because the same context acknowledges that the Father knows His servants need such things. Instead, Jesus places spiritual priorities above material anxieties because physical possessions cannot solve sin, death, or accountability before God. Mark 8:36 makes the same point with the question of what benefit exists in gaining the whole world while forfeiting one’s life. A person can possess wealth, education, professional status, admiration, entertainment, and every modern convenience while remaining alienated from his Creator. Conversely, a faithful Christian can possess relatively little materially while having forgiveness, truth, a clean conscience, a relationship with Jehovah through Christ, and the resurrection hope. We need God because the greatest human loss is not lack of possessions but loss of the life He alone can give.

Jehovah has not merely told humanity that it needs Him and then left people without a path of approach. He has revealed Himself through creation, given His inspired Word, sent His Son, supplied Christ’s sacrifice, raised Jesus from the dead, commanded repentance, provided the hope of resurrection, and promised everlasting life to faithful believers. John 17:3 connects eternal life with knowing the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He sent, bringing the human need for God into direct relationship with accurate knowledge. Hebrews 11:6 says that the person approaching God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those earnestly seeking Him. Acts 17:27 says that humanity should seek God and find Him because He is not far from each one of us. These passages reject both arrogant self-sufficiency and hopeless despair because the Creator whom humans need has made Himself knowable. The proper response is therefore not merely admitting that “people need spirituality” but personally turning toward Jehovah in truth, repentance, faith, prayer, obedience, and acceptance of Jesus Christ. Human beings need God because they need their Creator, moral Lawgiver, source of truth, Judge, Forgiver, Father, giver of resurrection, and giver of everlasting life, and no created thing can occupy His place.

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