Living in the Spirit Daily Devotional
Your guide to a daily walk with God.
Saturday, 24 October 2026
Topic: Complete in Him
Text: Colossians 2:6–23
We continue our series on spiritual growth. Having discussed being rooted and built up in Christ, today we will discuss being complete in Him.
Yesterday, we discussed how important it is to continue in Christ as we received Him, and not to mix the knowledge of God in Christ with vain philosophy and empty traditions. Paul gives the reason for this in verse 9 of our text, saying that in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
The word translated as “fullness”, plērōma, refers to the totality of the divine essence, attributes and power of God residing in Jesus Christ. It denotes fullness, lacking nothing.
Shortly afterwards, in the next verse, Paul uses a related word, plēroō, which shares the same root, to describe believers in Christ: “And ye are complete in him” (Colossians 2:10), or “you have been filled.” It means to fill, fulfil or bring to completion.
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This is important because the church to which he was writing was predominantly Gentile, and the believers were being pressured to follow Jewish traditions and mix their faith with pagan and mystical practices.
This is why he had written in the first chapter that Christ is the image of the invisible God, and that by Him all things were created, visible and invisible, whether thrones, dominions, principalities or powers. All things were created by Him and for Him.
It pleased the Father that all fullness should dwell in Christ and, through Him, reconcile all things to Himself, so that in all things He might have the pre-eminence. This was restated in chapter 2, where Paul says that in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
Hence, there is nothing apart from Him; He is the source of all things, and He sustains all things, visible and invisible (Colossians 1:15–18).
This is the fullness John writes about when he says, “And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace” (John 1:16). If we have received of His fullness, in whom the fullness of God dwells and in whom all things consist, then we have been made complete in Him.
Beloved, standing in Christ alone does not mean robbing yourself of superior knowledge or dimensions, because there is no knowledge superior to Him, and it is in Him that we receive all that pertains to life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3).
People who get involved in mysticism and vain philosophy do not understand what is available in Christ, for there is no greater mystery than God manifesting in the flesh, the great mystery of godliness (1 Timothy 3:16).
Therefore, we continue growing in Christ, not seeking completeness elsewhere, until, as Paul describes, we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Ephesians 4:13).
God bless you.
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