Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart

Colossians 2:9-10, “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.  And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:”

If God’s estimate of things is centered in His Son so that all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him, then who am I to challenge God about what is important in my life?

I surely do not want to go after something other than Him.

It is God who said that the fullness dwells in Him.

Are we going to challenge God’s interpretation of our life?

Do we think we need something more than Christ?

A better husband?

A better wife?

A better job?

A better environment?

Better security?

Do not challenge God.

God says, “In Him dwells all the fullness.”

And not only so, “You have been made full in Him.”

What contentment!

What satisfaction!

I might be deprived in my outward circumstances.

I might even be tried to the limit, but I have a Christ in me who is rich and all-sufficient.

He is my fullness and my satisfaction.

Because Paul knew Christ as his fullness and his satisfaction, he could be in prison and talk about always rejoicing (Phil. 4:4).

He could pray, sing, and praise the Lord in the midst of suffering, because his understanding was so full and rich with Christ (Acts 16:24-25).

The “full assurance of understanding” and “the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord” were constantly ushering Paul into more and more experiences of Christ in his daily life (Col. 2:2; Phil. 3:7-8).

Until Tomorrow

With A Shepherd’s Love,

Pastor Jackson

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