Episode #48: You Need More Than God

This article will break down Episode #48 on The Place You Find Yourself podcast. This episode is entitled: Episode #48: You Need More Than God.

This episode really jumped out at me because, truly, it's part of my journey. My whole life I really believed that if I did things according to a formula, I would have success. And I honestly believed all I needed was God.

Don't get me wrong. This is not about not believing in God. This is not about thinking He isn't enough. But it is about realizing that God designed us to need people.

Please take a moment to jump over and read the following essay by Sam Jolman: "You Need More than God".

"It's a common struggle I think most of us feel at some point in relationship with God. That God just isn't enough. Somehow we have this sense that God should be enough for us. That if we loved him enough or prayed enough or spent enough time with him, somehow he'll be enough for our hearts needs. This is God we're taking about after all."

The thing is: God gave Adam a helper! God decided that He (GOD) was not enough!

That message hit me HARD.

All my life, I've been thinking "God is all I need." But it isn't true! God designed us for community.

In the midst of the worst of my breakdown, I started picturing myself just laying there with my head on Jesus' lap. I would just lay on my bed or in the grass in the front yard (when I could get there) and picture him doing this:

"I can't tell you how often I hear clients tell me they want God to hug them or hold them or talk to them. I have the same heartache. I've wept out of these same sentiments. In some of my greatest pain, what has popped out of my heart has been. 'I just want you to hold me.'"

This essay really spoke to me. It's okay to need more than God. That is OKAY! God gave us people. He designed us to need people? Do you have people? You don't need a lot of people. But you NEED people!

"Just to be clear, we need God too. We need God more than we need anything else. But we don't need only God. We need a whole lot of other things. Of course it all comes from God. It all points to God. But it's not all God. And that's by design."