Jesus Christ is Not Needy. We Are!

The need of the church and its individual members is not to envelop Christ in our faithfulness but to be enveloped by Christ’s.
What’s the difference?
G.C. Berkouwer is helpful here in illustrating what I mean by showing contrasting responses by Peter to the Lord Jesus. One response reveals Peter being enveloped by Christ (our need), and the contrasting response is Peter seeking to envelope Christ (as if Christ needs us).
When Peter, stupefied by the wonderful catch of fish, confronts the goodness of his Master, he cries out: Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord! (Luke 5:8). Surrounded by the radiance of the Master, Peter can only bow his head. This is Peter being enveloped by Christ(this is our need and the key to our growth in godliness).
Peter’s response in this latter account amounts to another religion altogether. Later those other words were to cut through the night: “If all shall be offended in thee, I will never be offended” (Matt 26:33). By these words Peter meant to envelop Christ with his (Peter’s) fidelity and love. Christ must here bathe in Peter’s glory, not Peter in Christ’s.
Berkouwer closes his thoughts on this with these sobering words: We know the outcome. Not these words, but rather those spoken over the bonanza of fish, is the need of the church and what glorifies Christ.
(Studies in Dogmatics: Faith and Sanctification, 67).