The Wednesday Word ~ 06 August, 2025 A.D.

THE FULLNESS

by D.G. Miles McKee

 

“For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily” -Colossisans 2:9 [KJV]

This verse, some commentators tell us, is an illusion to the Tabernacle in the days of Moses.  It looked plain and ordinary on the outside, but inside it housed the very glory and presence of God.  Likewise, in Christ Jesus, God gives a full and complete expression of Himself, yet He clothed Himself as a human to do so.  

In Colossians 2:9 we see a clear declaration of the dual nature of Christ. Look carefully at our scripture and see that the Lord Jesus is both human and divine.  The fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily in Him.

“Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail the incarnate Deity,
Pleased as man with men to dwell,
Jesus, our Emmanuel.”

“… means simply, that God is wholly found in Him (Christ), so that he who is not content with Christ alone, desires something better and more excellent than God. The sum is this, that God has manifested Himself to us fully and perfectly in Christ.”

-Calvin’s Commentaries

 

In Isaiah 11:2-5, we are given a prophetic picture of the Lord Jesus which conveys something of this fullness.  There we read,

“..and the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 

and shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of His ears: 

but with righteousness shall He judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: 

and He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked. 

And righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins, and faithfulness the girdle of His reins."

 

Notice how Christ demonstrates the seven-fold spirit of God!

The Spirit of the Lord.

The Spirit of Wisdom.

The Spirit of Understanding.

The Spirit of Counsel.

The Spirit of Might.

The Spirit of Knowledge.

The Spirit of the Fear of the Lord.

The fullness and perfections of the Godhead were and are truly manifest in the Lord Jesus. The foundation of our faith then is that He who died on the cross was God incarnate. When we meet Christ Jesus, we meet with God in His fullness.  This is the foundation upon which we can build our life and eternal destiny.

“Mortals with joy beheld His face,

Th’ eternal Father’s Son;

How full of truth! How full of grace!

When through His eyes the Godhead shone.”

And that´s the Gospel Truth!

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