“And you are complete in Him who is the head of all principality and power” (Colossians 2:10 NKJV).
And you are complete in Him! This sublime truth ought to set the feet of every Christian dancing and have his heart pulsating with thankful praise. You are complete in the pre-eminent One by whom and for whom all things are made. You are complete in the pre-eminent One, in whom dwells the fullness of the Godhead in bodily form. You are complete in Him “who became for us wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption” (1 Corinthians 1:30 NKJV). Yes you are complete in Him who is the Head of all principalities and powers. The believer in Christ is a completed project and not a work in progress. If you are a believer in Christ, the Bible calls you a new creation, “Therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation old things have passed away behold all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NKJV). God does not want you to continue working at making yourself what He has already made you to be. No self-made person can have a place in Christ. All that God expects from you is to accept and reckon with what He has made you to be. Therefore, He commands “that you put on the new man which was created according to God in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:24NKJV). The phrase, “put on the new man” means that you accept by faith the new creation God has made you to become in Christ. According to the New International Version of the Bible, the new creation is “created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” You heard it well: “you are created to be like God.” And that is who you are like. You couldn’t be made better than what you are in Christ right now. You cannot improve on your present status by whatever means. This scripture is especially true with what God has done with His new creation. “I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him” (Ecclesiastes 3:14 NIV). You are indeed complete in Christ. God desires that you celebrate this unchangeable truth with fanfare.
You’re complete in Christ, a new creation. Stand firm, grow in Him, and overflow with thanks. Don’t believe lies – you’re already complete.
The devil is once again brandishing his old lie that he used to deceive Adam and Eve. “Then the serpent said to the woman “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:4-5, NKJV). Simply stated, Satan told Eve that God did not do a complete job in them, that they needed to eat the forbidden fruit to be fully like God. But God never lies, when He said let us make man in our image according to our likeness, the Bible affirms that He did exactly that. “So God created man in His own image in the image of God He created him male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:27 NKJV). Our first parents swallowed a deadly bait when they believed that they were not complete in God. The devil is dangling exactly the same bait before us today by telling us that we are not fully a new creation in Christ until we dress in a certain way, or do some other things. He pushes us to doubt the completeness of the work Christ had done in us and for us; thus having us running up and down seeking to make ourselves complete in Christ and many are falling for his lies. Paul warned us against this when he said, “Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men according to the basic principles of the world and not according to Christ” (Colossians 2:8 NKJV). What Christ had done in you and for you is complete and not open to amendment in any way.
The question for us now should be, how can we as believers respond to this amazing truth of our completeness in Christ? Paul offers a helpful counsel: “So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness” (Colossians 2:6-7 NIV). Here are what Paul outlined for us to do. Firstly, grow deeper in your relationship with Jesus; let your roots be solidly embedded in His unfailing love and stay secure in your assurance of His commitment to you. Secondly, grow up in Him as you learn to see the world, people, and circumstances from His point of view. Thirdly, stay strong in the faith that was once delivered to the saints. And finally, spend your time enjoying God in season and out of season, overflowing with thankfulness. It is eternally true that you are complete in Him, the pre-eminent One, in whom we live, and move, and have our being. To Him be thanks, honour and glory forever and ever. Amen.
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