My god is fullness

The history of redemption never ceases to stumble upon the impertinence of man's idolatry. God does not overlook those details, but He is good and great in mercy. Nothing and no one can stop the purposes of God's redemptive plan. However, man continues to try to seek God in created things and not in their essence. Today's world, ruled by all kinds of egomaniacs (these are people full of personal vanity and fanciful yearning for greatness) that feed on the irrational junk of symbols and kitsch, it is a den of superficial religiosity.

The church of the living God, founded on the foundations of faith in Jesus, her head and only Lord and redeemer, is responsible today to proclaim more than ever the concept of the fullness of and in Christ, the completeness that we have in our Savior. . Christ is enough! “… Our sufficiency is of God” (2 Cor 3.5).

False doctrines of new religions had crept into the church at Colosse in the first century. They were no longer sure that they believed only in Christ as Savior. Angels and their participation in the destinies of man were discussed, Old Testament precepts had also been introduced and mixed incoherently with nascent Christianity. The philosophy of men, who only offer partial answers to human concerns, sought a space to be included in the religious recipe book of the disturbed Colossians. Paul in his letter presents to you the full Christ, the incomparable gift, Lord of all that is visible and invisible: All the fullness of divinity dwells in bodily form in Christ; and in him, who is the head of all power and authority, you have received that fullness. (Col 2.9-10).

We must believe it, nothing completes us more as human beings than the love of Christ and the Spirit of life in Him. Life in Christ means redemption, salvation, liberation. We have already freed ourselves from the bonds that bound us forever to the condemnation of sin. Only the blood of Christ was enough and continues to be enough, only the life in the Spirit leads to the righteousness of man. Why? Because He embodies the fullness and “… of his fullness we have all received grace upon grace” (John 1:16).

There is nothing sadder than seeing brothers of the faith seeking to add new ingredients to Christianity that syrup it or justify their way of understanding the gospel. We must love these brothers, above all things, and pray that God will reveal this fundamental truth to them in his Word. I confess, in the love of Christ, that I walked those roads drenched in religiosity, but one fine day, Christ entered my temple, knocked down my money-changer's table and invited me to eat at his.

The fullness is what does not admit "extras", it is the maximum. To be filled with the Holy Spirit is to allow ourselves to be guided in Him and to be satisfied with his fullness. Do we need something more than the Holy Spirit to walk with Christ? You and I know that He is the way, the truth, and the life, that His fullness infuses power, that His gospel is not an empty religion, but a relationship initiated by Him based on our faith. I think of the Apostle Paul on the Areopagus of Athens speaking to the Athenians with a spirit fired by idolatry (Acts 17: 16-34), I think of the thousands of missionaries and workers who rise up in the world in favor of the extension of the Kingdom, I think of the more than 12 million children under the age of 5 who die annually in the world for lack of bread and who will not have the opportunity to meet Jesus due to inequality also originated in modern idolatry: money, wealth and other gods. I praise the eternal, merciful Lord, the fountain of grace, the one who completes us in Christ for his glory, the one who fills everything in everything.

God bless you!

Suggested Reading: Psalm 115