Complete in Christ

<p>In a popular film, an actor plays a success-driven sports agent whose marriage begins to crumble. Attempting to win his wife, Dorothy, back, he looks into her eyes and says, &ldquo;You complete me.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s a heart-warming message that echoes a tale in Greek philosophy. According to that myth, each of us is a &ldquo;half&rdquo; that must find our &ldquo;other half&rdquo; to become whole.</p> <p>The belief that a romantic partner &ldquo;completes&rdquo; us is now part of popular culture. But is it true? I talk to many married couples who still feel incomplete because they haven&rsquo;t been able to have children, and others who&rsquo;ve had kids but feel something else is missing. Ultimately, no human can fully complete us.</p> <p>The apostle Paul gives another solution. &ldquo;For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ&rdquo; (Colossians 2:9&ndash;10 NLT). Jesus doesn&rsquo;t just forgive us (vv. 11&ndash;12) and liberate us (vv. 14&ndash;15), He completes us by bringing the life of God into our lives (v. 13).</p> <p>Marriage is good, but it can&rsquo;t make us whole. Only Jesus can do that. Instead of expecting a person, career, or anything else to complete us, let&rsquo;s accept God&rsquo;s invitation to let His fullness fill our lives more and more.</p>