“And in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over every ruler and authority.” – Colossians 2:10, NASB

Whenever someone mentions the common phrase ‘my other half’ (referring to a spouse), some people understand it as implying that a person is ‘a half’ until he/she gets married. 

I think it a gross misunderstanding of the term ‘the two shall become one.’

In marriage, two adults are simply in oneness of mind and purpose, not that they are ‘incomplete’ without the other.

Otherwise we would assume that Jesus Christ and Paul were ‘incomplete’ given that they never married.

I think the ‘perfect’ marriage is one where a spouse does not expect the other to make him/her complete. It’s a case of two complete beings synergizing to do life together.

From a religious perspective, people have always sought ‘wholeness’ or ‘completeness’ throughout the generations.

Believing that there was something inherently amiss with them, they desperately did everything in order to be at peace with God.

Of course they still do all sorts of things in the name of religion in a vain attempt to measure up to God’s standard of being acceptable.

Religious self-flagellation, dysmorphia,   extreme asceticism, etc are some of the practices that people have always done in order to gain ‘redemption’ and be ‘complete’ in God’s sight.

However in our meditation today, the apostle Paul assures the believers that “in Christ you have been made complete.”

Please note the tense – you have been made, not ‘you’re being made’ or ‘you will be made.’  It was already done.

If Christ is in you as Lord and Saviour, then you don’t need to do anything in order to achieve completion. You’re complete if you have Christ and the Spirit of God in our heart.

This was a firm response to certain teachers who had emerged in Colossae with all sorts of unbiblical philosophies and secularism to the effect that in addition to their faith in Christ, the believers had to do certain other things and follow certain rituals in order to be ‘complete.’

The apostle however insisted that they were already complete in Christ.

In Hebrew, the root for the word ‘complete’ is related to peace or wholeness and denotes being perfect.

In the Old Testament, completeness/perfection was primarily attributed to God in the sense that He is deficient in nothing and His attributes are not marred by any flaws, shortcomings, inadequacies or limitations. 

In the New Testament, the Greek word used is ‘holos,’ which denotes the sense of being fully accomplished, made fit for purpose, and being perfectly sound in everything.

It is from this word that we derive our English word ‘holistic,’ which denotes all, whole, complete.

So what Paul meant by ‘complete’ is that when you become Born Again, you receive a holistic experience that makes you embrace the full character of God through Christ.

As believers in Christ, we are without any deficiency or imperfection; there is nothing else expected or intended in regard to the supply required of us to be accepted by God.

Of course that truth is not easy for many of many to grasp, because it contradicts the beliefs that we have embraced over the years through our religious upbringing.

As we saw yesterday, everything we have, including your body, is God’s property, which for all purposes and intents, makes you complete.

Hebrews 10:14 says; “For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified.”

That’s it; if Christ is in you as Lord and Saviour, then you don’t need to do anything in order to achieve completion or perfection.

We’re already complete if we have Christ and the Holy Spirit in our heart. Hallelujah!

Prayer:

Heavenly Father, thank you for the holistic work you have accomplished in me through Christ. I declare that I am whole, full and entire, lacking in nothing. I am perfect, enough and fit for your purpose. In Jesus Name, Amen!