Complete in Christ

Hello and thanks for joining me for another edition of Our Daily Bread insured and voicing the title. Today's encouragement complete in Christ. In the popular film connector plays a success driven sports agent whose marriage begins to crumble, attempting to win back his wife Dorothy. He looks into her eyes and says you complete me. It's a heartwarming message that echoes a title in Greek philosophy. According to that myth. Each of us is 1/2 that must find our other half to become whole. The belief that a romantic partner completes us is now part of popular culture, but is it true I talked to many married couples who still feel incomplete because I haven't been able to have children, and others who had kids but feel something else is missing. Ultimately, no human can fully complete us.

The apostle Paul gives another solution in Colossians chapter 2 for in Christ lives all the fullness of God in the human body, so you also are complete through your union with Christ Jesus doesn't just forgive us and liberate us. He also completes us by bringing the life of God in 12 lives. Marriage is good, but it can't make us whole. Only Jesus can do that instead of expecting a person Korea or anything else to complete us. Let's accept God's invitation to let his fullness fill our lives more in today's Scripture reading is from Colossians chapter 2 verses 6 to 15, seven just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the face as you will towards and overflowing with thankfulness. See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of the deity lives in bodily form and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head of every power and authority in him you also circumcised with the circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you are circumcised by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

When you were dead in your sins. And in the end circumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ, if you gave us.

All lessons, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness which stood against us and condemned us. He has taken it away, nailing it to the cross and having disarmed the powers and authorities you made a public spectacle of them triumphing over them by the cross. Let's pray Lord Jesus Wade grateful for the special people in our lives, our spouses, and romantic partners, children of friends a wider family, Wade grateful for our careers and our callings full the material blessings in our lives but we know that we can have all of these things and still be incomplete because completeness only comes for you. Thank you for your death, resurrection, forgiveness and restoration. They are what really makes us complete in Jesus name we pray. Amen on today's encouragement is provided by Our Daily Bread ministries