“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority” (Colossians 2:9-10).
Divine nature resides permanently in Jesus. Jesus was, is, and always will be God. While on earth He possessed that nature in bodily form. False teachers in Colossae were teaching that Jesus wasn’t enough to save us but was just another angelic being between us and God. Paul taught that Jesus is God who had physically come as a man to bring His divine power down to us. Jesus became a man and at the same time was divine. All we could ever desire we can find in Him. He is the fullness who can fill our emptiness.
When we possess Jesus by faith we lack nothing we need. Neither human philosophy nor empty religion can add value to our faith. I love the title of a book I read: “Jesus + Nothing = Everything.” We are full and not empty because the One who lives in us fills us.
Looking back over the history of God’s people in the Old Testament there were many saints who lived exemplary lives. We have everything they had and more because of Jesus. They died waiting for Him to come. We live in the reality that He has already come. We don’t need anyone or anything else because we have the fullness of God Himself in Jesus Christ.
