Article October 23, 1954 Issue

EXPANDING INTO SELF-COMPLETENESS

GRACE R. WHITE

Completeness is found in the true idea of man as the son of God, partaking of the divine nature. The Apostle Paul declared (Col. 2:10), "Ye are complete in him." Completeness can never be found while one thinks of man as the offspring of the flesh, limited and imperfect, inheriting both good and evil traits, and harboring in himself a perpetual division and warfare because of this mingled inheritance.

The understanding of man's spiritual completeness is most important to you and me. It is the basis of health, harmony; and it is the fulfillment of the deep desire of the human heart to be loved and to be remembered—in some fashion to achieve immortality.

Many people are familiar with the derivation of the English word health from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning hale, sound, whole. Health, then, is wholeness, completeness. It implies that one is in the full possession of all his powers and resources, lacking nothing, but possessing a full complement of strength, vigor, and effectiveness. It also embraces the elements of mental, moral, and spiritual wholeness, and leads to harmonious human relationships. How much richer is this definition of health than the concept which is sometimes accepted that it is merely the absence of disease. Health is not a negative but a positive state, full of vigor, joyousness, achievement.

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