Complete!

“and in Him you have been filled, who is the head over all rule and authority.” Colossians 2:10

Who or what completes you? Many a couple in love say that their spouse completes them. I have even heard people say that a pet completes them. Others say work or hobbies complete them. As for a Christian, there can only be one reply to the question of who or what completes you, Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

I love my wife dearly, and she loves me. I tell her all the time that she is perfect for me. I even lip-sync the song Perfect, by Ed Sheeran, to her at least once a week. She is a blessing that I do not deserve, and I am amazed     that she is my wife. This June, we will be married 46 years,   and I can honestly say I love her more today than I did   all those years ago. I don’t love another person as much as my wife, and Cathy would say the same about me. However, there is one that both Cathy and I love more than each other. His name is Jesus. He takes preeminence in my life. He is my God, my King,   and my Lord. He completes me. Not Cathy, not my       children, and indeed not anything else in my life. If the Lord ever called Cathy home, I would grieve and        mourn, but I will not have lost the One who completes me. Oh, I would pine and miss her, but I would know she was with the one that completes us both.

Because Jesus completes us, we can live lives full of  joy and hope despite our trials. As the days become   darker, as our nation embraces what is evil, we need not despair because the one who completes you will keep you to the very end.

There isn’t anything a believer needs in this life to complete them outside of Christ. John MacArthur writes this about Colossians 2:10.

As a result of the Fall, man is in a sad state of incompleteness. He is spiritually incomplete because He is totally out of fellowship with God.  He is morally incomplete because he lives outside of God’s will. He is mentally incomplete because he does not know ultimate truth. At salvation, believers become “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Pet. 1:4) and are made complete. Believers are spiritually complete because they have fellowship with God. They are morally complete in that they recognize the authority of God’s will. They are mentally          complete because they know the truth about ultimate reality.

Because of this truth, every believer can live without wasting time and energy trying to find something or         someone to complete them. For all of those who have been completed   by Christ, Paul encourages us with these words,  For I am  confident of this very thing, that He who   began a good  work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus  ( Phil. 1:6).

Your shepherd,

Pastor Mark