Complete In Christ

Complete in Christ

In Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority. Colossians 2:9-10

How can we be complete, whole, and filled with all the fullness of God when there are still broken places in our lives?

Have you ever used one of the new “invisible” bandage products? You apply the liquid on the wound, and it both fills and covers the wound, sealing it so it can heal from the inside. That’s a wonderful object lesson to illustrate what it means to be complete in Christ. Wherever I am broken, wherever you are broken, Christ is poured into the wound to make us complete again. We don’t have to strive to make ourselves acceptable to God. We don’t have to try to fix ourselves so we’ll appear more spiritual or clean to others. We are accepted in Christ the Beloved. He has taken all your sins and mine, all our lacks, fears, and sorrows on himself at the Cross.

So no part of our lives—whether physical issues, emotional issues, spiritual issues, relational or financial problems—needs to go lacking for his presence, healing, and grace, if we will ask Jesus to fill us. It is by his wounds and suffering that we are made whole. Whatever is broken or lacking in our lives can be made complete as we invite his presence and power to fill and cover those very weaknesses.

Though we are broken vessels, God loves to heal us and transform us into something whole and beautiful for his purposes. When we mourn, he pours his comfort into our hearts. When we are weak, his power strengthens us. God comes to us in the extremity of our need and makes us not only adequate but complete and full of the very fullness of God. —CHERI

Thank you, Father, that you have made me complete in Christ. I ask you to pour your presence into the wounds and broken parts of my life and make me complete.

Christ is full and sufficient for all his people. He is bread, wine, milk, living waters, to feed them; he is a garment of righteousness to cover and adorn them; a Physician to heal them; a Counselor to advise them . . . a Treasure to enrich; a Sun to enlighten; and a Fountain to cleanse. —JOHN SPENSER (1630–1693)