"Ye are complete in him." --- Colossians 2:10.
Think, O believer, with wonder and amazement, reflect with gratitude and love, that whilst thou art deploring the common ruin of human nature, and mournfully feeling its sad effects upon thy own soul, thou mayest yet look through all thine imperfections, fraility, and unworthiness, to thy glorious Representative, and see thyself complete in him. The law which would condemn thee, he has completely satisfied: the obedience which it requires, in order to thine acceptance with God, he has completely paid; and that eternal life, from which thy sinful imperfections must have for ever barred thee, is now become thine unalienable inheritance, as a reward of His righteousness who lived and died for thee.
Go forth, then, and glorify him in heart and life; the more thou believest in him, the more wilt thou love him; and the more thou lovest him, the better wilt thou serve him; and till he shall remove thee from this vale of sin and sorrow, let thy song in the house of thy pilgrimage be this; "Complete in him."
To all my vileness, Christ is glory bright;
To all my miseries, infinite delight;
To all my ignorance, wise without compare;
To all my deformity, the eternal fair.