Fullness. Colossians 1:19. Usually, I use the words "full" or "fill" as verbs, but things can easily change when God is involved. In Him, a totality of power makes what is strange to a natural man understandable. The fullness of Divine Persons is seen in One Person. In the body of One, all Three dwell; each One has unique roles as different Persons but remains One in unity. When I see Christ, I will see Him in His body, the same one He took upon Himself when He was here below. In that body, He lived and worked, and in that body, the marks of His passion will show even though that body has been glorified since His resurrection.
In that Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, I see evidence of God's mercy and grace. He has such true compassion that we can easily trace the path of God's love, which was clearly demonstrated when He died for us. In Him and from Him, God's blessings come to us, and they are given daily in Jesus' name. Those who know Him trust that He controls everything that happens to us, whether good or bad. As days and years pass in this earthly life, we are called to live for our Lord Jesus Christ, confident that everything is under His guidance. “Of His fullness have we received grace for grace,” and we will continue to receive from that fullness throughout eternity.
Gnostic teachings apparently involved the need for humans to have intermediaries, such as angels, to connect with God in heaven. They used the word “fullness” as a technical term in their philosophy to describe those intermediaries. Paul’s message to the Colossians was that there is a much greater “fullness” that is real, and that is Christ. All the “fullness” of God—in wisdom, power, glory, and every aspect of His character—is permanently present in the Lord Jesus Christ.
There is no other “fullness” because it is the sovereign God’s good pleasure to have such complete fullness in the Son completely and forever. He is supreme eternally. His preeminence fills the widest possible place in creation, the church, individuals who know and love God, or any other place or condition. He is the fullness of the Godhead, and He is the fullness of humanity. He is the fullness of everything that happens on the earth or in space; wherever humans may go, they will be confronted with God’s ideal and challenged by His fullness in everything. No matter what humans “discover,” they will see evidence of His fullness.