Complete in Christ
Girlfriends, an early 2000s sitcom is about 4 black female friends and how they navigate work, career, family, relationships and everything in between. One of the characters, Joan, has a great career, has a lovely house and a car but isn’t married and desperately wants to be and because of this has dated quite a number of men through out the seasons. So, one of the episodes in the later seasons, she comes to the realization that she doesn’t need a man to feel complete and she doesn’t need to feel like she has an incurable disease just because she is unmarried. A man or a woman is meant to complement you not complete you because you are complete in Christ. Now I ain’t no relationship coach, I’m just giving my two cents. I just had to give you a bit of a context to what I’m about to share with you and don’t worry it’s not going the relationship route.
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Many of us are like Joan that feel once we get certain things we will be complete. Things like a job, a child, a car, a house and so on. We are complete in Christ, the only completion we need and the only completion that is permanent. You are not complete because of your job or the title because these things can change or go away, you are complete because you are in Christ Jesus. The one who died for you and nailed everything to The Cross.
You don’t have to feel incomplete because certain things are lacking, you are complete the way you are now, today, this moment. I know you want the car, the job, the wealth but in your expedition to getting these things, bear in mind that you are not getting them to make you complete. You are getting them as an addition to you not in completion to you. Think about it, what happens when suddenly the car goes away or the wealth dwindles? Would you go back to feeling incomplete? Our feeling of completion shouldn’t have to fluctuate based on what we have or don’t have, it should only be based on being in Christ.
I know it can be hard to think you are complete when certain things you desire aren’t yours but I want you to know you are complete in Jesus Christ. The One who doesn’t look at you from the stand point of what you don’t have as the world does but looks at you with perfect love that sees no incompleteness. Till next time, byeeeee.
