For many months I’ve felt like “There’s got to be more to life than this.” (I’ll let that statement stand without further personal elaboration. If it’s your size of shoe also, I’m certain you can figure out on which foot to install it.)

This morning I am encouraged and enticed by a fragment from Colossians 2:10.

“And ye are complete in him.”

Complete! As in whole, fulfilled, rounded out, content, perfected, and all those wonderful parallel concepts.

In Him! Not in just anybody. In Him!

Now take two other verses from this chapter and fit them into this.

“[Christ,] In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (3).

“For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (9).

How does God see me?

I know how I see me — needy, imperfect, immature, sinful, and their ilk.

All my efforts to improve fall flat. Self simply cannot make self better.

Therefore, Jesus came to die for me so that I might be reconciled to God. Once my relationship with God is healed, I can be healed.

“[You…hath he reconciled] In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight” (Colossians 1:22).

So tell me, then — how does God see me?

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