"If all your thoughts and relationships are about your needs and wants, your life is going to be terrible. It will be a constant disappointment. Sure there will be bursts of joy when you are getting what you want. But most of the time a low-grade dissatisfaction and anger will accompany your life...
Consider your family. Imagine how you would treat your children if their existence was just to satisfy your wants and needs. How about your spouse? What quality would your relationship have if your spouse had to satiate your desires? How about your relationship to your parents? Imagine if your approval of them was only based on how you wanted them to act?...
God’s action in the world never revolves around the immediate satisfaction of wants and needs. His action is focused on reconciliation. The amazing news is the God of the Bible incurred all the cost of reconciliation himself. He paid our debt in full to restore us to his family. And when we see the God of the heavens lay aside his wants and needs to serve us, we can make the much smaller sacrifice of laying aside our own."
Dave Dorr, Jesus' death killed the consumer (read the full thing here)