God’s Wholeness Makes Up for My Lack

God in the Bible teaches that we are to be meek. This is not just some other way to say weak. It is a strong, powerful, understanding of self and of one’s relationship to God and others.

The meek recognize that whatever they lack, it is God’s grace that will provide what is missing; it is not the weakness of another person that will provide what is missing. My worth, my ability, my value, my ability to rejoice and be happy, is not made greater by the weaknesses or faults of others. How could someone else’s lack make up for my lack? No, it cannot. God, however, is perfect. He is omniscient. He is perfectly balanced. Through my relationship with Jesus Christ, his perfectness, his lack of lacking can make up somehow for my lack. Therefore, I do not need to find fault in others, make them look bad in other people’s sight, or look down on them in order to substantiate my own worth.

How does God’s perfectness make up for my incompleteness? Perhaps, in part, that can only be done because of Jesus’ infinite, perfect atonement; and more completely done only after I yoke myself to him.