“For in Him the entire fullness of God’s nature dwell’s bodily, and you have been filled by Him, Who is the head over every ruler and authority.” (Colossians 2:9-10)

As I read this passage, sitting at my table in Haiti, I felt ashamed. Meditating on this section of Scripture made me realize how, as Christians, we exist within limitations that we have no business existing in. Christ was not part God but He was all God and possessed the “fullness of God’s nature.” We have been filled by Him (“I have given them the glory You have given Me. May they be one as We are one. I am in them and You are in Me. May they be made completely one, so the world may know you have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me.”), and this means then, that we have the full nature of God within us! Why then do so many of us not experience this?

Read more in the original June 2013 newsletter

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