Colossians 2:6-15
Close
your eyes and think of a time when you felt ecstatic; when life felt like it
couldn’t get any better. Was it one of the following?
- Your first child or grandchild was born.
- Your wedding day.
- The day your children graduated.
- Making a big sale or getting that promotion
you worked so hard for.
What you thought of may have
been one of these or something else. The fact is, that this world makes a lot
of promises it can’t keep. Do you remember this jingle from 1970? “When
you say Budweiser, you’ve said it all.” That’s a bold statement that would seem
to indicate that Budweiser can give us fullness in our life.
God promises fullness of life. In the Living Bible verses
9-10 read like this: “For in Christ there
is all of God in a human body; so you
have everything when you have Christ, and you are filled with God
through your union with Christ.”
“In Christ you have been
brought to fullness”
so that “you have everything when you
have Christ”. Life can’t get any better than this. God promises it.
And
yet, life pulls at our hearts to seek the fullness that we so desperately desire
in other ways. Oftentimes, it is something good that our human nature distorts
like our career, our possessions, church or even our family. Or it can be
something like drinking or drugs, sex, gambling or other addictive behaviors.
God
has given us freedom to experience His fullness. Verse 11 reads: “When you came to Christ, he set you free
from your evil desires, not by a bodily operation of circumcision but by a
spiritual operation, the baptism of your souls.” And then verse 14 states: “He took this list of sins and destroyed it
by nailing it to Christ’s cross.”
Blaise Pascal is credited with this quote: “There is a
God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any
created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”
God has created us to experience the fullness of Jesus in
our lives. What more can we ask for?
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