I must at all costs avoid the deadly delusion of self-fulfillment. I am hounded on all sides to be the person I was meant to be, to realize my full potential, and to explore the capabilities of the possible me. Even Christians have succumbed to this idea, and now I am told that in Christ I shall be able to fulfill myself as God intended, in contrast to being self-fulfilled by the world.
The error in all this is that the Bible nowhere talks of self-fulfillment. The only fullness the Bible knows about is the fullness of Christ. He is the fullness of God (Colossians 1:19; 2:9); He is the fullness of the church (Ephesians 1:22-23); and He is the fullness of everyone who draws fullness from Him.
Self-fulfillment is only another form of pride, and hardly different from the ignominious sin of Lucifer (Isaiah 14:12). We progressive moderns, however, have so covered the tern with attractive clothing that it no longer appears as sin, but as an inherent right of the personality. Self-fulfillment is expressing my full self, achieving my glory, and carving out my niche in life. Its ultimate goal is the coronation of self. Further, it is a fatal contradiction. How can everyone fulfill himself? The total exaltation of everybody would result in racial mania. The fulfillment of all my desires usually means the denial of someone else’s.
As a disciple, I must not talk of fulfillment; I must talk of fulfilling. When I received Christ, I received His fullness. As I live out His fullness, I flesh out His presence on this earth, I make full His manifestation to men (Ephesians 4:13). Instead of fulfilling myself, I fulfill Christ; I make Him the “Man above all,” the rightfully crowned King, “that in all things he might have the preeminence” (Colossians 1:18, KJV).
“For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority” (Colossians 2:9-10).
Daily with the King 