The Complete God

It is certainly easy to end up falling victim to erroneous decisions, dangerous people and hence, difficult circumstances. It's not a stretch to say God Himself has faced grim circumstances. Nevertheless He retains His perfection. For us people who know nothing but imperfection, it gives us an opportunity to see how perfect God really is. Inherent in His perfection is completeness, for perfection implies He lacks nothing and has never lacked. Hence He is whole; hence He is complete.

For the first fifteen hundred years of His relationship to Israel, it is clear that God's revelations were limited in context. There were always only specific people who'd directly commune with God, people such as Moses, the Aaronic priesthood and after their sin of the golden calf, the Levites. But God was known to an exclusive group who managed the holiness of the people, who were even commanded to bear the iniquity of the nation by means of certain rites (Leviticus 10:17).

Now however, with the New Covenant, we know what God is like. Firstly, according to Colossians 1:15, Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. Therefore, we have been revealed the true nature of what it means to be divine. Secondly, we have an "advocate", a sort of invisible social worker guiding us (John 15:26). This "advocate" is the Holy Spirit.

And what do we learn about God? We learn that God knows true freedom, firsthand. For being a complete character, needing nothing, there is no circumstance which can take Him outside of Himself. This is the true freedom. Take a person, who believes freedom is circumstantial. But all I'd have to do is place him back in that circumstance and he'd be bound once again. This freedom is false because it is temporal. God urges us to a permanent freedom, one that is unending and unchanging.

It is from this completeness that we get the "lacking nothing" of James 1. It is from completeness that we get Matthew 5:48, a highlight of the Sermon on the Mount. Be perfect as God. Be complete. Be whole. Lack nothing.

From a personal perspective, dealing with sexual impurity( in New York City!) is a perfect example. I must master completeness in character or else fall to sin each time temptation arises.
A complete person can be tossed into a storm of temptation but walk out unscathed. What is your weakness? Flaw? What's holding you back? Without gaining "lacking-nothing", how do you expect to meet that need?