Hello and thanks for joining me for another edition of Our Daily Bread.

I'm Sheridan Voizzi, and I've titled today's encouragement, Complete in Christ.

In a popular film, an actor plays a success-driven sports agent whose marriage begins to crumble.

Attempting to win back his wife, Dorothy, he looks into her eyes and says,

You complete me. It's a heartwarming message that echoes a tale in Greek philosophy.

According to that myth, each of us is a half that must find our other half to become whole.

The belief that a romantic partner completes us is now a part of popular culture.

But is it true?

I talk to many married couples who still feel incomplete because they haven't been able to have children,

and others who've had kids but feel something else is missing.

Ultimately, no human can fully complete us.

The Apostle Paul gives another solution in Colossians chapter 2,

for in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body,

so you also are complete through your union with Christ. Jesus doesn't just forgive us and liberate us. He also completes us by bringing

the life of God into our lives. Marriage is good, but it can't make us whole. Only Jesus can do that. Instead of expecting a person, career, or anything else to complete us, let's accept God's invitation to let His fullness fill our lives more and more.

Today's scripture reading is from Colossians chapter 2, verses 6 to 15.

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,

rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught,

and overflowing with thankfulness. See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental

spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of the deity

lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every

power and authority. In him you are also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self, ruled by the

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