Abundant Life Devotional
By Eric Jinkwen

You are Created Complete in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 2:9‭-‬10
For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

There are many things in this world which when they are old, can be renovated or repaired: cars, houses, cloth, shoes and so on. Some renovations can be so good looking like on cars that you may think the object is newly created or fabricated. But no matter how good or perfect a renovation work may look; it will never be an original. The original remains the original.
Friends, do you know that about our new life in Christ, God doesn’t repair the Old Creation, but a brand-new work of creation.

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The Bible says, For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works.
There are actually two creations: the first in Adam and the second in Christ. The first creation in Adam failed and was deprived of the glory of God; Thus became incomplete. It lost many things including the image and the glory of God. But now, think about the new creation in Christ. It is not a refurbishing or a repair of the old, it is a totally new creation. In Christ, we are new creation and not renovated or panabited beings. 2 Corinthians 5: 17, “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”

The sense of Ephesians 2:10 may not be too clear in the King James Version. In the New Living Translation, it says: “For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus.” Hallelujah.
You are a masterpiece that is created anew in Jesus Christ. The old died to give way to the new.
The old life became incomplete, void of the totality of God’s glory and image because of the fall. But the new life is created complete in Christ full of glory because of the finished work of the cross.

That is why, Paul in Colossians says, For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

Beloved, you are complete in Christ. You may not yet have a husband, a child or a house of your own, but you are complete in the fulness of God in Christ Jesus. Do you understand that? Stop looking at the wrong proofs and comparing yourself with others. Having all riches minus God is equal to zero. Having nothing plus God is having all things.

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Prayer: Thank you Lord for making me a new creation in Jesus Christ. I believe and declare, I am complete in Him, full of glory and power to change the world, Amen.