You are complete
Colossians 2:9-11 (NKJV)
For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
People who do not know God as their Creator and Lord strive daily to find completeness, to find wholeness. They regulary start new relationships looking for it, buy more stuff, attend more courses and normally, when they have done all of this, they still feel incomplete! This should never be the case for us – we should live from a revelation of our completeness and wholeness, that we are complete in Him. It is our union with Christ, and that alone, that has taken away from us all incompletness and made us complete in every way.
We should not strive, as those who do not know God, to be complete – rather realise that we already are, in Him.
The whole worldly system of advertising works on the basic premise of convincing people they lack something or need something else to be all they are meant to be. Magazines, adverts, TV and billboards daily send out the message to the consumer: "Buy this and you will be complete and acceptable". Don't get me wrong, it is nice to buy stuff, but our buying stuff should never be fueled by the thinking that our completeness is found in the obtaining of that stuff.
Christ alone has made us complete, by His death, burial and resurrection, and each of us should start each new day knowing that we are already complete in Him. When you understand this even the greatest advertising campaigns lose their grip on you. Especially when it comes to relationships in your life you should never strive thinking you will find your completeness from them – this can be so dangerous. The healthiest relationships I have witnessed are always when both people entered in knowing they were already complete in Christ. If you go into any kind of relationship feeling incomplete you can often begin to try to draw from the other person what they cannot give you, that which only God can. Yes, two become one when they are married, but that always works best when it is two complete people becoming one new one.
So think about that today – where do you need to stop trying to draw completeness from? Again, find it in Christ alone. What a wonderful way to start the day: complete!
Andy
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