Complete in Christ

Posted : 22 Sep, 2010 05:39 AM

Have you ever had the feeling that you were less than a person? You remember how it was in school. Two kids stood in front of a group of their peers and, one by one, began picking people for their team. Slowly the crowd began to get smaller and smaller, until �the crowd� became a group, and �the group� became a few. You watched nervously as the group dwindled. Inside, you shouted, �Pick me! Oh, pick me! Oh, please pick me.� You didn�t want to be the last person picked.



Finally the dreaded moment came. There you stood with another un-athletic-looking person. Neither of you were prime picks. But if you could be the last person picked � there was a fifty-fifty chance now, the best odds yet � then at least you would retain a little self-respect. The choice was made. It wasn�t you. The other person heaved a big sigh of relief, while you lowered your shoulders, bowed your head, and slunk over to the team that �had to take you.� You didn�t even want to look at them. You could just imagine how everyone was taking this. It was like getting Charlie Brown. You were the death blow to the team � a leftover.



Many singles feel that way about their singleness. They feel rejected, hurt, and inferior. There�s got to be something wrong with me, they think. Look at Jane. Look at Terri. Look at Tom. They all have somebody. What�s wrong with me? I�m still single. Many singles have a Knight in Shining Armor Syndrome. They walk around feeling as though they are only half a person, almost visualizing themselves with half a body or half a brain -- until they find the other half that will make them complete. It has been described as feeling like an Oreo cookie � the one without the cream � in search of their other half. Without the other half, they believe they�re, at best, a crumbly chocolate wafer of no distinction � definitely not an Oreo, in any case.



This feeling of inadequacy feeds yet a second assumption � that all their problems stem from singleness. So they fall into a hard driving search to find Mr. or Miss Right. They bend, twist, manipulate, and run to this function or that concert � all in an effort to bring their �curse� of singleness to an end. But after a while, the search becomes a snare. Single adults, who get caught in the �gotta get a guy/gotta get a girl� syndrome, wake up one morning to find themselves living in limbo. They�re afraid to make a move for fear that it might keep them from meeting that mythical someone. Consequently, they make no permanent goals, and hesitate to make any life-changing decisions because they�re still waiting for �the right person� to come along.



But the Bible says that we are complete in Jesus Christ. If you have a covenant relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, then you are a complete person apart from any romantic relationship you will ever have. That�s right. The person you are today, with all your abilities and talents, callings and desires, is a full person in the Kingdom of God. You are capable of doing great things for Him � not sometime down the road, but right now � in the town where you live, in the church you attend, and among the people whose lives you touch. No romantic relationship, however permanent, will ever make you more satisfied, more complete, or more ready to serve Christ than you are today. You are a complete, whole person that God is interested in using now for His Kingdom purposes.



�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:�

(Col. 2.9-10)

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