Bonus Gifts

Kate Grego

I am a sucker for samples! “Buy this and get this for free”, and buying kits that come with a little something extra for the same price. I call those- “bonus gifts”.  I love that I am already getting what I need and then the company decides to throw in a little extra. I can’t be the only person who finds such gratitude in these little treasures. Fellow shoppers, are you with me?

Colossians 2:10 says, “And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.”

     I can’t tell you how many times I have heard someone say- “once I get a husband”, a baby, a car, a house, a new job, a new church, etc., I will be complete. Friend, if you know Jesus, you are complete. You might be saying to yourself, “I don’t feel complete”. I have to be honest, at some point in my Christian journey, I have felt the same way before. I have longed for something so much that I found myself feeling incomplete without it. I was wrong. Unfortunately, for me, I didn’t realize the truth of being complete in Christ until I had to have many things ripped from my hands, leaving me with only Jesus. When Jesus is all you have, you realize He is all you need.

     When I got saved, Jesus completed me. I don’t need to wait on anything in this life to give me that feeling now. Jesus is the greatest gift we can ever have, and because I have Him, everything else is - you guessed it, BONUS! I won’t downplay your desire to want things in this life that are natural, like a spouse or a baby, but, if you never get those blessings, YOU ARE STILL COMPLETE! If you really get this biblical truth, it will make those bonus gifts in your life SO much more special. I am eternally grateful that God heard my prayers and gave me my husband. He has been such a blessing in my life, but if God decided to never bring Him, I still had everything I needed.

      Jesus’ love can fill EVERY empty space in our hearts. He loves us SO much that He would purchase us with His own blood. He needs nothing, and needs no one, but yet He wants us anyway… I’d like to think that we’re His bonus gifts.