Christ is Enough

 May 18, 2021

Charles Spurgeon has been called “the prince of preachers” for good reason. His insights often give timely perspective to Scriptures, as did today’s reading from “Morning By Morning,” a book of devotionals.

“In Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete.” (Colossians 2: 9-10) It’s easy to skim over familiar Scriptures without thinking about its implications. About this text Spurgeon writes, 

“All the attributes of Christ, as God and man, are at our disposal. All the fullness of the Godhead, whatever that marvelous term may include, is ours to make us complete. He cannot endow us with the attributes of the Deity, but He has done all that can be done, for He has made even His divine power and Godhead subservient to our salvation. His omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, immutability, and infallibility are all combined for our defense. 

Arise, believer, and behold the Lord Jesus joining all of His divine Godhead to the chariot of salvation! How vast His grace, how firm His faithfulness, how unswerving His immutability, how infinite His power, and how limitless His knowledge! All these are made the pillars of the temple of salvation by the Lord Jesus, and all, without diminishing their infinity, are promised to us as our perpetual inheritance. Every drop of the fathomless love of the Savior’s heart is ours. Every sinew in the arm of might, every jewel in the crown of majesty–the immensity of divine knowledge and the sternness of divine justice–all are ours, and will be used for us. 

The whole of Christ, in His endearing character as the Son of God, is by Himself given to us to enjoy most richly. His wisdom is our direction, His knowledge is our instruction, His power is our protection, His justice is our covenant, His love is our comfort, His mercy is our solace, and His immutability is our trust. He makes no reserve, but opens the recesses of the Mount of God and urges us to dig in its mines for the hidden treasures. “All, all, all are yours,” He says. Oh, how sweet to behold Jesus in this way and to call upon Him with the certain confidence that in seeking the interceding of His love or power, we are simply asking for that which He has already faithfully promised.”

Whenever we feel inadequate, whenever we have failed or are fearful, whenever we are in distress or confused or worried about the future or are regretting the past, knowing that we are complete in the Christ who is everything God is, gives confidence and hope beyond measure.