Complete In Christ

And ye are complete in Him.

Colossians 2:10

Here is a truth, the vastness of which is only equaled by its unspeakable preciousness.  The Lord Jesus is the life of our acceptance with God.  We stand as believers in the righteousness of a living Head.  Within the veil He has entered, "now to appear in the presence of God for us"  (Heb. 9:24), presenting all His people each moment complete in Himself. 

It is a present justification.  "Ye are complete in Him," "accepted in the Beloved," "justified from all things."  The enlightened soul utterly repudiates perfection in himself.  Completeness in anything that he is, or has done, he totally rejects.  Seeing how incomplete his deepest repentance, his strongest faith, his best obedience, and his most costly sacrifice, he lays himself low in the lowest dust.  Too lowly he cannot think himself; too little he cannot be in his own eyes.  Language fails to express the deep self-loathing and sin-abhorrence of his soul.

But lo!  A voice is heard, and oh, it falls upon his ear like the music of the spheres:  "Ye are complete in Him!"  In one moment all is peace.  The believing soul ceases from his works; the weary spirit enters into rest.  In Christ he now stands complete, his adoption complete, his whole person complete before a Holy God!  Is not this a vast truth, and is it not a glorious one?  Where is the doctrine that exceeds it?  Where is the declaration that has in it such life as this?

Dear reader, it may be thou has long been looking at thyself for one complete thing.  In thy judgment thou mayest reject the thought, yet in thy heart there is that principle which has been looking for something in thyself to commend thee to God--something to make thee more acceptable to and more welcomed by Him.  But behold where thy completeness is found--in, and solely in, Christ!  Oh precious truth!  A poor, vile sinner, standing before a Holy God, complete in righteousness!  Thou art the object of His infinite love and delight, over whom He rejoices with singing.  Oh, how divine, how finished, how glorious must that righteousness be, which so covers thy soul as to present thee before a God of immaculate purity, "not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing" (Eph. 5:27)!

~excerpt from "Morning Thoughts" by Octavius Winslow