Amy Jackson- Need-love

In the introduction to C.S. Lewis' The Four Loves, he talks about closeness to God. He says, "Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?" (4) God is everything that we need. Why do we think that we need to have everything together to come to him? Why do we think that we need to be like him to receive his love? Larry Crabb says this in his book Inside Out, "The more deeply we enter into the reality that life without God is sheer desolation, the more fully we can turn towards him" (214). The church seems to welcome people that are perfectly dressed and perfectly sinless. It is a false pride that we have to put ourselves on pedestals for people to see. It is when we realize how far we are from that that we become close to God. We need to realization that we need him desperately before he can fulfill that need.