Do you ever just feel incomplete, not empty but like something’s missing? Do you ever feel like you are on an endless search for a missing piece but you don’t really know what it is? If you do, or did that’s what we’re going to talk about today. The missing piece. At one point or another we were all looking for something to complete us, we want that one thing that will give us permanent fulfillment, and eternal happiness. Some of us are probably still looking. We all want to feel complete, we want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.
We all have a God-shaped hole in our hearts, and no matter how good we feel at times, or how complete we think we are, until we allow God into our hearts we will always be and feel incomplete.
Colossians 2:9-10
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.
Christ completes us, as the scripture says above. Christ is the only thing that can fulfill every one of our needs, We are because He is, we live because He died, we thrive and continue to live because He rose again. Christ has been and forever will be the missing piece. Before Christ came to Earth to save us, we were in the need of a Savior. We were missing something only He could provide us with, salvation, healing, forgiveness. Many times we are seeking Christ without knowing we are seeking Christ and it is mind-blowing. We are looking ultimately for a savior. We are seeking to fill the voids within ourselves with an eternal, or permanent unconditional love. We want to belong to something bigger than ourselves. We want to know that there is someone or something watching over us. We want a place to turn when times get rough. We want a hand to hold, a shoulder to cry on. We want a safe haven. All that says is that we want a Savior. Well let me tell you my friends, there is a savior and His name is Jesus.
“Look! The virgin will conceive a child!
She will give birth to a son,
and they will call him Immanuel,
which means ‘God is with us.’” (Matthew 1:23)
He is our safehaven, he holds our hand and walks with us, he took our sins on His back. He is always watching us, He never takes His eyes off of us, and there is no love greater than His.
Christ completes us because He is everything we’re not and more. We are flawed, imperfect, we are sinners saved by Jesus Christ the Messiah. But we serve a perfect God, who makes up for our imperfections, and through unity with Him we are made complete. The scripture says that we are made complete through union with Christ. One of the synonyms for union is fusing or fusion which is the process or result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity. 1 Corinthians 6:17 says But the person who is joined (united) to the Lord is one spirit with him. When we give our lives to Christ we become one with Him. We receive the gift of Salvation and we live our lives with God, We devote ourselves to Him and we live according to His words, we obey His commands, and hang on to His every word. Our lives line up with the life Jesus lived. Then we are complete. This is the union in which we are completed. It can only be found in Christ.
Reflection
- What does it mean or look like to live with God.
- How does the saying “looking for love in all the wrong places” relate to today’s topic.
- Where did you go to fill the voids, or find the missing piece before you gave your life to Christ?
- If you haven’t given your life to Christ I’d like to open that gate and offer you the opportunity to make that choice today.
Prayer Time
If you have found that you are looking for love outside of Christ or you feel incomplete, talk to Him about that. Pour out your heart to Him, flaws and all. Rest in that fact that Christ is the only one who can truly complete you, and His love never runs out. So wherever you are in your life, it’s never too late to turn to or turn back to HIm. I want to give you that opportunity, whether you are turning to Him for the first time, or giving your life back to Him. Know that His arms are wide open and He is accepting you as a mother takes in her lost child. Rest in that.
Take some time, if you feel the holy spirit tugging on your heart, respond to Him today.
If you made the choice to follow Christ, rededicate, or to submit your life to Him fully, Go to Romans 10:9-10
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
And repeat these few words,
Jesus I declare that you are my Lord and Saviour who died for my sin and was raised three days later. I repent of my sins and I give my life to you. I believe in my heart that you are the true living God. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus name, Amen.
Congratulations! The angels in heaven are rejoicing right now.
Be sure to come back tomorrow for Day 29 and everyday for the rest of the year!
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