Made Complete
"May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God." Ephesians 3:19 This verse, though I've read it before, really hit me. What really stuck out is the words "made complete". Completeness matters in our culture. We work for the satisfaction of completing a project, we devour shows and books until the story is complete, we take classes and strive until our degree is complete, and we buy and spend until our collection is complete and we are satisfied. We start an adoption and expect it to be completed (ouch, real honesty stings sometimes). But when I read these words in Ephesians, I see the word complete, and deep within me I know this to be true; only the love of Christ completes me. How does God's love complete? I am complete in His love because I cannot add to it by striving to do more or take away from it by faili