Divine Viagra?
So let me just throw this out there: God doesn’t need Viagra to satisfy his bride. The Omnipotent isn’t impotent! Sometimes when I listen to sermons, both podcasts and live, I want to take out my pen and prescribe some medication to help God get it going. For example, not long ago I heard a speaker say, “God needs your help to advance his kingdom.”
This has been brewing in my brain for about a month. God doesn’t need anyone to help him accomplish his will any more than a velociraptor needs a fork and knife to cut its meat. God’s a big boy.
But the beauty of the Bible is that it tells us God does indeed use us for his kingdom–not out of necessity, but pleasure. God enjoys the intimate community shared between Creator and creation. That’s what gets him going. Before we were ever created, God was completely complete within himself–a holy society, as Jonathan Edwards would say. But in his grace, and for his glory, the One who sprinkled solar systems through the galaxy bent down to our earth and Walmarted himself for each one of us. The poorest of the poor and the richest of the rich have access into the holy of holies.
So next time you hear someone de-elevating God, just scratch God a little prescription of Viagra to get him through the evening.