You Complete Me Moment

For those that have seen the movie Jerry Maguire, it is a movie starring Tom Cruise as a sports agent. He leaves a top agency and learns a great deal about loyalty, friendship and relationships. At the end of the movie, we have this build up between him and a love interest where Tom indicates “You complete me.” Your heart has been brought to a point of melting as you understand the depth of the journey and closeness between the two.

Here in 2nd Corinthians is the “You complete me” moment that Paul is having with the church in Corinth. He is writing them this letter that is so deeply intimidate about their issues and problems and also who he is in dealing with all this. You have seen some of this from yesterday’s devotion and now continue in these thoughts.

Read 2 Corinthians 12:14-21 (read it more than once as it needs to sink in)

Verse 14 Paul indicates that “what I want is not your possessions but you.” That is the “ahhhh……” moment where we have our hearts melt as we understand how close Paul is with the Corinth church. He goes into a metaphor that he is like their father figure. He is the father of their faith and he should be helping them and saving for them. I think we get that because we live in a culture where our parents give us all the opportunities to learn and have a better life. We don’t think about supporting our parents and saving money for them (well, not until much later in life). So Paul continues to share how he is pouring out his life for the Corinthians. Not just Paul but also his companion Titus.

Paul wants so much that they live lives that are holy and honoring God. He wants them to be able to see them grow and that they would be filled with the things God wants from believers rather than sinful acts.

For many of you who find WCAC youth group as your home, you have done much to try to help others in their walks and really desire to see people grow. For those that have been on Doulos, you know that you have taken a servant leadership role to grow God’s kingdom. So can you imagine leaving youth group and going to college, and then you come back and the youth group is in disarray. There are people that haven’t been living out all the teachings and guidance that you hope to leave people with, but rather they are living in immoral worldly ways. This is how Paul was feeling with the church in Corinth. So his desire in writing this was a warning to them which can be seen as a love note because he is so concerned for them. In the same way, I hope that we continue to do our part to love the group and really be concerned for the ways we want to be a youth group that is living lives that are filled with the Holy Spirit and bearing spiritual fruit, rather than being people that are disobediently and living out sinfully.

Take some time to pray about this and reflect on things that God would place on your heart about our group and your involvement in what God is doing.