Fullness vs Hollow

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Here is today's communion meditation.

In our daily communion videos, we talk about paying attention to how you're feeling throughout the day and making quick adjustments if you get off track. The other day my energy levels were feeling lower, and I could feel some heaviness on me, but I wasn't sure what was causing it, so I decided to take a few minutes to get still and connect with God. Within 2 minutes of getting still I was full of energy as God began to teach me some things. 

Immediately when I sat down John 1:16 came to mind...Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.

It is out of the fullness of Christ that we receive grace, and if we are going to give grace to others then we must also give from a place of fullness in Christ. Feeling a sense of completeness and fullness is an indicator that we are in Christ. 

The opposite of being full is to be hollow and immediately after John 1:16 came to mind a passage from Colossians 2 came to mind. 

Here is the passage...

Spiritual Fullness in Christ

6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. 8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. 9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. 

A hollow and deceptive philosophy can take us captive or imprison us, but what does this mean? We all have a philosophy on life for how we live. This philosophy is the approach we take in life based on the belief systems we have. But, these philosophies can be hollow meaning that they don't have God in the center of them as the source. For example, there are a lot of philosophies on health and fitness, finances, finding and fulfilling our purpose, etc but most of them are hollow because they are only based on external rules that don't have God in the center of them. These hollow philosophies can imprison us because they place a bunch of rules and restrictions on us that God never intended. 

Today's communion is a time of gratitude that we have been brought to fullness in Christ and we are asking God to show us any areas where we have been taken captive by a hollow philosophy, which would be areas we have been functioning in without him in the center. 

I am praying for you. 

Daniel