Article August 28, 1995 Issue

Complete

Annette Kreutziger-Herr

How we all long to be complete, to feel the peace and poise that come from knowing we have all that we need. No searching, no craving for something we don't have, but just the consciousness of being harmonious and whole.

Completeness is something that we will never find in a material world, in which everything—including man—is temporal and partial. As Paul stated nearly two thousand years ago: "Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known" (I Cor. 13:12). This indicates that partial knowledge will be overcome by a full knowledge. Complete knowledge. But what does God know about us? The Bible shows that man is the loved child of God, His perfect image, divine Life's likeness. Man is not outside of his Maker, because his Maker is the one infinite Mind, the one supreme intelligence, the source of everything good and living. Man is an idea within God, the divine Mind.

Although Mind is the only cause, Mind never began. "That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been," states the book of Ecclesiastes (3:15). Interestingly enough, shortly before this verse we read: "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it" (verse 14). This is not only a beautiful poetic image, but an acknowledgment of the divine power and perfection that has a strong impact on daily life when we dig into the deeper meaning of it.

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