You Complete Me

Were you just thinking about the movie Jerry Maguire? : ) It's a very famous line from the movie where Jerry is telling his love how important, how vital she is to his very soul.

Do you know what it is like to be so thoroughly linked with someone you don't think you could breathe without them? I think that's why broken hearts hurt so much. We've developed such a strong bond with them that we truly love them and it's because we now function with them as a new creation instead of the two old ones. Ripping that apart is devastating to the soul.

Of course, Jesus is our ultimate love so He is our ultimate bond. Take a look at John, chapter 5, verses 5 and 8:

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.”

The image of a vine and it's branches is both beautiful and revealing to me. The vine is the core of the plant. It produces the branches and sends them what they need to produce the fruit of the vine! It is at the same time a simple and an elegant design.

We were designed the way we are for a purpose and that purpose is to produce the good fruit of the vine. It is so much a part of our DNA that no amount of ignorance or disobedience can break it. Haven't you ever noticed that when you aren't doing God's will things just seem slanted wrong? Any joy we gain from sin is temporary. Things don't often go the way we planned. It's because our plan isn't THE plan! Even when we are trying to do God's will and our own design creeps in, things don't go like they are supposed to go.

Jesus feeds us and we produce His fruit. The product is that He is glorified and more branches are added to produce even more fruit, and the whole plant thrives. It isn't counter to our nature. We weren't created to sin. To listen to Jesus and produce good fruit IS our nature. In Him, we are complete!