You Complete Me

You Complete Me

Haven't you heard it over and over on TV Shows and movies, when a person confesses his or her love for one another? Those words, "You complete me."  a phrase that expresses happiness, joy and a feeling of finally finding your better half, as if you were missing a body part or your happiness depended on someone else to completely be happy and content with oneself. 

I believe the only true way to be complete is when we meet Jesus face to face! 

The apostle Paul writes in 1Corinthians Chapter 13:1 Love never fails.  In verse 4-7 he writes about love . These verses are often quoted in many wedding ceremonies: 

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Perhaps the saying "You complete me" is expressing an unconditional love they feel from the other person, but this love can waiver and sometimes fail and result in divorce. One thing we can be assured of is God's love is truly unconditional and never ending. 

Paul later explains in verse 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 

Paul was referring here to being complete finally when we meet Jesus.  Then we will have the full knowledge of ourselves and of him. Then and only then will we truly be complete. We will be full of joy, happiness and peace. But for now we need to practice faith , hope and love, but the greatest of these is love. 

12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

Paul was expressing that we can only see the Lord  in our mirror as we were made in his image likeness. But one day when we get to Heaven, we will see him face to face and our eyes will be open to know him fully as he knows us fully.   

Then we shall be complete, then we can truly say. “You complete Me” to our Lord and Savior.  For He is the only one who can make us complete.

By Ella Shines Goldsmith   5-21-2026