God doesn’t do anything halfway. He loves you too much to leave you lacking in this life. So when you give your heart to Him, He gives you Himself completely and makes you “complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power” (Colossians 2:10 NKJV).
Sometimes we feel that nagging fear that something is missing in us, in our experience, or in our efforts. The Christians in Colossae felt the same tug, so Paul wrote them “so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding” about who Jesus is and how He made them right with God” (2:2).
The Colossians were being told they needed morethanjustJesus.Theywerebeingbombarded with “hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ” (2:8), and they were confused and concerned.
We can feel the way they did because we also hear about all sorts of good things that we can do or add or think, and it can make us wonder if some extra doing, adding, or thinking will somehow complete our faith experience and make us whole. But God’s perfect gift of love, Jesus, has already made you whole. You don’t need legalism, philosophy, or mysticism to complete your spiritual experience. You don’t need extraordinary wisdom or secret knowledge to make you complete because God made you complete in Christ, “in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (2:3).
When you received Christ, God made you whole. Just as a healthy man doesn’t need medicine, you don’t need anything else to make you whole either. In this life, if you only have Jesus and nothing else, you lack nothing—you are filled, fulfilled, and complete.
When Jesus died on the cross, He saw you and He loved you. With you on His mind, His final words were, “It is finished.” And when He said it, He meant it—it is finished. Completed. Done. Nothing to add. “So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him” (2:6). Depend on Jesus completely, and experience the completeness He brings.