Being Complete

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” 2 Tim 3:16-17 NIV

Every parent’s delight is to see their children grow and develop in every area of their lives. When you birthed a child and the child grows to talk, walk, hear, and fit in every area of life you feel very happy. Even happier is the parent whose child is both physically and mentally sound and without any form of deficiency or deformity.

 After delivery, it is expected that the child eats well and is properly taken care of so that the proper development of the child to maturity is guaranteed. Suffice to say that many things come to play before a person becomes a grown, matured individual. The areas that guarantees the future of the individual starts from conception and development in the womb, then childhood, teenage stage, young adult, and finally a mature adult. Each stage is important and depends on the preceding stage to evolve and become complete.

When an individual becomes born again, the person is likened to a new born baby and is expected to be fed with milk and as the child grows, other forms of nourishment will be introduced to facilitate growth and development.

The word of God which is also called the scripture is what God uses to feed us to grow to maturity in him. What it does to us to so unique and its transforming power is real. The four areas mentioned in the passage above will help us become complete.

All scripture is God-breathed. It means that the word of God proceeds from him. When you read or study the word you take in the breath or life of God into you. This life of God that you take in is what is going to transform you to become a mature individual. The word of God is the food we need to feed on to grow and blossom. The function of the word to an individual is as follows:

1.      Teaching: The word teaches us so that we know God’s mind.

2.      Rebuking: The word rebukes us by disapproving things we do that are wrong

3.      Correcting: The word corrects us so that we learn to do things right

4.      Training in Righteousness: The word trains us with all the necessary tools needed to lead a right life in our thinking and action.

When the word is fully established in your life, you will be equipped and complete to do good works that will glorify God.