Fullness

O God,

Thou has taught me that Christ has all fullness
and so all plenitude of the Spirit,
        that all fullness I lack in myself is in Him . . .
. . . that it is my duty, out of a sense of emptiness,
to go to Christ, possess, enjoy His fullness as mine,
as if I had it in myself, because it is for me in Him;
that when I do this I am full of the Spirit,
as a fish that has got from the shore to the sea and has all fullness of waters to move in,

For when faith fills me, then I am full. . . .

first faith, then fullness,
for this way makes me most empty,
and so most fit for the Spirit to fill.

Help me to delight more in what I receive from Christ,
          more in that fullness which is in Him,
the fountain of all His glory.

~ The Valley of Vision, "Fullness in Christ" ~

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