UALC Daily Worship: What More Can We Ask For?

Colossians 2:6-15

Close your eyes and think of a time when you felt ecstatic; when life felt like it couldn’t get any better. Was it one of the following?

The Buckeyes won the College Football Playoff National Championship.
Your first child or grandchild was born.
Your wedding day.
The day your children graduated.
Making a big sale or getting that promotion you worked so hard for.

What you thought of may have been one of these or something else. The fact is, that this world makes a lot of promises it can’t keep. Do you remember this jingle from 1970? “When you say Budweiser, you’ve said it all.” That’s a bold statement that would seem to indicate that Budweiser can give us fullness in our life.

God promises fullness of life. In the Living Bible verses 9-10 read like this: “For in Christ there is all of God in a human body; so you have everything when you have Christ, and you are filled with God through your union with Christ.”

“In Christ you have been brought to fullness” so that “you have everything when you have Christ”. Life can’t get any better than this. God promises it.

And yet, life pulls at our hearts to seek the fullness that we so desperately desire in other ways. Oftentimes, it is something good that our human nature distorts like our career, our possessions, church or even our family. Or it can be something like drinking or drugs, sex, gambling or other addictive behaviors.

God has given us freedom to experience His fullness. Verse 11 reads: “When you came to Christ, he set you free from your evil desires, not by a bodily operation of circumcision but by a spiritual operation, the baptism of your souls.” And then verse 14 states: “He took this list of sins and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ’s cross.”

Blaise Pascal is credited with this quote: “There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”