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YE ARE COMPLETE IN CHRIST
SATURDAY, JULY 1
Colossians 2:4-12

Colossians 2:10

 

“Ye are complete in him.”

 

YE ARE COMPLETE IN CHRIST
 
The greatest Gift the loving God has given to mankind is His only begotten Son (John 3:16). Sadly, many people ignore this precious Gift and are seeking or pursuing the empty things of this world: fame, power, wealth, popularity, worldly wisdom, philosophies, values, lifestyles, lusts, pleasures, entertainments, etc., which can never satisfy them nor save them! “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). They cannot see God’s great salvation in Christ due to the corrupt, depraved and sinful nature of human beings and the blindness of their hearts and minds (2 Cor 4:4).
 
We thank God for His grace and mercy alone that He has opened our eyes and delivered us from sin and the power of the darkness of Satan unto His marvelous light (Acts 26:18; Col 1:13; 1 Pet 2:9) so that we may find not only our salvation in Christ but also our All in All (Col 3:11), and we are “complete in him” alone. Many believers have found their salvation in Christ but after that fail to continue seeking Christ for their All in All. They just try to live a Christian life or do God’s work with their own strength and efforts. No wonder, they fail and fail again until they realise that their sinful nature and the attacks and temptations of Satan prevent them from living a victorious life in Christ.
 
Jesus is not only our salvation, but also our righteousness, our holiness, our eternal life, our strength, our wisdom, our victory, our peace, our joy and our All in All. Only in Him are we complete, lacking nothing. Having Him we have All. Without Him, we have nothing. Therefore, the more we know Him, trust in Him, look unto Him, rely on Him and humbly submit ourselves to Him and His Word, the more we have His life and His All. Then we will turn our eyes unto Him alone (Heb 12:2), and be “rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith” (Col 2:7). Then we may live for Him, serve Him, and walk as He walked (Col 2:6; 1 John 2:6), and taste that the Lord is gracious and precious (1 Pet 2:3-4).
 
THOUGHT: We are only complete in Christ, our All in All.

PRAYER: Father, open my eyes that I may see and appreciate Thee more.

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