COMPLETE IN CHRIST

And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: – Colossians 2:10

“…the search for the missing experience. It is good to know that there is an answer to this search, one that can completely satisfy all the longings of the human heart.

The final answer is stated for us in Colossians 2:8-1- where the Holy Spirit is exalting the person of Christ:

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.

What magnificent words these are: In Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. All that there is in God is in Christ! Then the equally amazing statement: You are complete in him. You are complete in him!

…talking about people who feel there is something missing in their lives, and here is the Word of God telling us we are complete in Christ. If a thing is complete, then nothing is missing.

Notice also the tense…you are complete in Christ, not, you will be! Truly there are many more glorious experiences awaiting us in the future when we are with him forevermore, but this phrase talks of a quality of completeness here and now. As I go into all the issues of life, its joys, sorrows, victories, and failures, I am complete in Christ.

This does not say that I experience that completeness. Many of us…are very conscious of something missing in our lives. But in one sense it should put an end to our search for completeness. We now know where it is, in Christ.

No new program, new look, or new gimmick can produce that completeness. No new baptism, no new spiritual, charismatic involvement can produce that completeness, because I am complete – in Christ. My need is to work out the completeness that he already has worked into my life.”