Our weakness meets his fullness

For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority. (Colossians 2:9-10 NLT)

In Christ, we can do all things. Have you heard that before? Have you ever wondered how is it that the very things we are the weakest doing are the very things he is the strongest at accomplishing? The weakest areas of our lives are the points where his strength can come through time and time again. We are able to do above and beyond whatever we are 'weak' at accomplishing because of our union with him. 

Christ lives in us, making the fullness of all he is available within us. That isn't a truth to be taken lightly. We might not think his presence is making much difference in our lives right now, not really 'seeing' what he is doing in us or through us, but it doesn't mean his fullness isn't there. It just means he is silently and deliberately at work. We need to trust the work!

You ARE complete. Did you catch that in our passage today? It isn't that someday we might be complete or close to it. It is an already accomplished fact. We might not have convinced our minds and hearts of that fact yet, but his presence brings all 'completeness' along with it. There are people who say that we need 'more of Christ' because we are giving into temptation on occasion. That isn't biblical, though! We have ALL of Christ in us already!

We just haven't figured out how we listen to his voice and tap into his strength within instead of giving into that temptation that leads to whatever compromise is the issue right now. We aren't going to get it right all of the time, but the more we tap into his 'fullness' that abides within us, the less we will be prone to listen to the lies of our enemy or the lusts of our flesh. You've heard it said that the mind is willing, but the body is weak - so we need to let God's fullness take over where we are weak.

As long as we maintain this 'union' with him, we have all we need to resist temptation. The issue is that we need more of Jesus - we might just need to nurture that connection a bit more. We cannot resist if we don't know what the issue that leads us into sin really is. We probably won't know the issue unless we ask him to reveal it to us, even though we have a pretty good idea what it might be. We have all we need to both identify the issue and incorporate the corrective action that will break that tie between temptation and engaging in the sin. It is Jesus - his fullness within. Just sayin...