We often approach God or His Word with the presumption that His first priority is our happiness and/or satisfaction. Not only is that wrong, but this presumption almost always leads to an isogetical, selfish approach that invariably makes God and His Word subservient - and often, the means to - our own sinful desires. There is a reason that Jesus calls us to deny ourselves and follow Him (Mark 8). It is because God is great, and we are not. He alone can save; He alone can rescue. But don’t be deceived - He saves us for Himself. And when we - for His glory - allow Him to be the center of our existence, one of the many by-products of this is the very joy and satisfaction we were trying to find on our own in the first place.
This is one of the hardest aspects of the Gospel to accept. And yet, it is probably the most important.
