How did Jesus make us whole?
June 1 - 7, 2025 | Always Peachy Devotionals | Wholeness Week 1
I wrote my first “real” story when I was 11 years old.
I scribbled it in a notebook on a family vacation to Arkansas. It was a story that had lived in my head for years at that point, and I’d decided to write it down because a friend as me to. I’m glad I did. It changed the course of my life. But even back then, as an awkward 11-year-old nerd, I knew that the story was incomplete even after I finished writing it.
It wasn’t what it was supposed to be. It wasn’t what I knew it could be. That same nagging thought has followed me for decades where I’d look at the stories I wrote and see everything they didn’t accomplish. I always found things to add, to change, to tweak, to adjust. I still do, even after more than 30 years of writing. So, I guess you could say I’ve never written anything complete.
But that’s not surprising. No human being can craft or imagine or execute anything in a way that is entirely, fully, wholly perfect. We aren’t that way, so nothing we make can be that way. Is it any wonder we always feel like we’re forgetting something?
I hate that sense of missing something, like I left the oven on or the vent running or forgot to take the trash out. That something I was supposed to have done was left undone. We’ve all experienced that feeling. But that’s life. That’s chores. That’s to-do list stuff. Do you ever get that feeling about your soul?
Do you ever wonder if your soul is missing something? Or maybe you fear that God missed a step when He made you, left out an important component or neglected to include certain ingredients?
I’ve been thinking about the idea of wholeness and completeness for a while now. When my mom passed away in March, I sort of felt like I was missing a limb or something. I don’t know how to explain it. A huge, important part of my life was gone. Granted, because of her dementia, she’d been gone for a long time, but this felt bigger. More permanent.
It took me a little while to adapt. I’m not sure I’m fully there yet. But one thing I had to remind myself of every morning was that I am whole. I am complete. I’m not missing anything, not practically speaking and not spiritually speaking. I just miss my mom. But what I’ve learned over the years is that when the Lord is dealing with me about something in my own heart, it’s usually something I need to share with others. So that’s what we’re talking about in June: Wholeness.
This week we’re going to focus on how Jesus made us whole, because we couldn’t accomplish it ourselves. Wholeness, completeness is beyond our own reach, but not His.
Monday - Salvation is complete and irrevocable (1 John 1:9)
Tuesday - We are his masterpiece (Ephesians 2:10)
Wednesday - We have everything we need (2 Peter 1:3)
Thursday - He has already equipped us (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
Friday - He will direct us (Isaiah 58:11)
And, of course, we’ll be memorizing some awesome verses this month too, specifically about the idea of being complete in Jesus. And this weeks’ verse is a favorite, Colossians 2:9-10.
This passage is so important in how it points out that Jesus wasn’t just a prophet or a good teacher. Jesus possessed all the entire fullness of God in His own body. He was a man, but He was God at the same time. And because we, as followers of Christ, have unified with Him through faith, He has the authority to truly complete us.
Jesus is head over everything. He is supreme over everything. And if He says you are complete, whole, lacking nothing? Well, He would know.
It may be normal to feel like you’re missing something, but hopefully after this month, we’ll all be able to remember that feelings aren’t always true. In Christ, we are all complete. Lacking nothing.
Praying for you guys this week,
Amy
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