On the Matter of Completeness

"We through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith" (Gal. 5:5). For this reason we ought not expect to be experientially whole and complete until the Savior's appearing. We earnestly long for completeness; the desire for this is written in our constitution. But until the Lord Jesus comes again we shall have to contend with the acute sense of incompleteness, and with coming short of God's glory (Rom. 3:23; 7:10-25). Nevertheless, in the meantime, let us reckon, by faith, upon the blessed reality that we are presently "complete in Him, which is the Head of all principality and power" (Col. 2:10), even in Christ Jesus the Lord. This is God's perspective. Let us continually put forth effort to see this matter as He sees it. And as John declared, "now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is" (I Jn. 3:2). When we are finally like God's Son in the sense spoken of here by John, we shall forever say farewell to incompleteness. —Editor