Who completes me

.  As being created in God's image we are created to exists in relationship with our creator God almighty.  Therefore we are all born with a desire for something to fulfill us.  We all try to fill ourselves up, but often times we feel the sting of dissatisfaction with who we are, where we are, or what we are doing. It doesn't help that the world perpetuates this feeling in order to keep the population dependent on them for the temporary satisfaction it provides through sin.  At times is seems like  everything around me is trying to make me feel like I am incomplete for one reason or another.  God says differently over and over again in his word.  He says that his grace is sufficient for us, and that he would complete what he started in us.  He says that we are complete in him.  Therefore I am in need of nothing; I am lacking nothing.  It is easy to forget when everything around me says otherwise, but let God be true and every man a liar.  God completes me, God prospers me, God provides for me, God protects me, God loves me, God forgives me, God has called me forth out of darkness into his marvelous light and God has wonderful plans for me.  He has my every need in the palm of his hand, and therefore I will take no thought for my own life.  Forgetting that which is behind I press forth toward the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus.  I commit my ways to the Lord and he establishes my thoughts.  I call unto the Lord and he hears me and answers.  He fills me up with his spirit, and I produce much fruit.  He is teaching me how to love by loving me best, and I am living out the love of Christ.  The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want.  I am not my own salvation and neither is anyone else, it is the gift of God lest anyone should boast.  And when God saves he does it perfectly and completely.   The trick is to hand God the broken pieces of ourselves so that he can restore us.  He truly does make us complete.

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