On God’s Purported Vanity

No, because God is God. God is the only one who deserves our praise, adulation, and worship; and He is all-good. He not only loves it and deserves it when we worship Him, but because

He gave us life and all things that we receive and enjoy, He rewards that worship by the innate nature of our relationship with God. It’s built in to us that it is immensely rewarding to worship our Creator.

In fact, you might say that His “vanity” in this sense is an illustration of His benevolence because through our praise and worship of Him, He pours out His love and blessing on us (that is to say, we are more attuned and able to receive it).

God deserves our praise also because different freedoms are intrinsic to the offices that different people hold. A gynecologist can go where a stranger can’t; a President can do what a civilian can’t; and cetera.

But even so, let’s take a closer look to see if God does indeed deserve our praise. Vanity and praise are both tied to worth. It’s not that praise itself is silly or unreasonable: we ascribe worth to that which we appreciate, such as saying

“This CD is really entertaining [attempting not to confuse “good” here],” “That shot behind the three-point line at the buzzer was amazing,” and that sort of thing. We do that all the time. There are things in the world that have worth; only an extreme cynic would proclaim otherwise, and the burden of proof would fall to him or her. Thus, praise itself is rational.

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There is a certain amount of praise that is appropriate–even due–each person. We have all done commendable acts, and we all deserve some praise. Our problem, the problem of vanity, is that we think we deserve a lot more than we do.

Most of what we think we deserve actually came by accident: for instance, good looks. That’s why we call it ‘vanity’ most commonly when someone is puffed up about themselves, because that had nothing to do with them. There is a lot more accidental stuff than we’re often willing to admit that gives us a false sense of worth.

God is a different case than us altogether. Nothing about Him is accidental; all His works are of immeasurable worth, and He Himself is of immeasurable worth (along with immeasurable everything else!).

Every good quality God possesses is absolutely, totally His own. Furthermore, let’s carry this one more step: we are given all the good things we have by God Himself. If you’re good looking, it’s because God made you that way; if you’re intelligent, it’s because God has given you a sound mind; if you have a lot of money, it’s because God has given you the power to earn it. Et cetera.

The irony in the question of whether God is vain is that if praise is rational, if there is anything worthy of praise, then God deserves it all because “He is the source of every good and perfect gift” (Jas 1). Furthermore, if God is indeed worthy of my praise, He is worthy thereof whether or not I’m blissfully happy, because it is His due.

Thus, not only is it not “vain” for God to want praise and worship in the sense that it would exceed His worth, but it is His right to demand it.

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