This one line from the movie, Jerry Maguire, has become famous and is almost guaranteed to take any girl’s breath away. But as you watch, think about how easily we can get caught up in the idea of someone other than God “completing us.” No matter where our love relationships take us, we were created to have Him be our everything and no one else.
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Human relationships are so fragile.
~ What qualities in human relationships do you long for yet can’t seem to find?
~ Do you think God truly completes you?
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I guess the one thing I really long for in human relationships (but know is impossible) is unconditional love. I have spent years looking for love and thought I had found it many times. But when I finally understood the depth of God’s love for me I realized I was never going to find the love I was looking for in any human being. He is True Love. I do feel complete in Him. I can’t always explain it but I believe it. My joy is made complete in Him!
Reading a great book with my husband on this very topic. Its called “Boundaries in Marriage.” A couple thoughts from this book: When you look for someone to complete you, you end up marrying out of weakness rather than strength. The requirement for oneness is two complete people. We don’t ever have to grow up if we are expecting someone to complete us. There is a tremendous difference between “completing” each other and having your differences “complement” each other. When I was reading this book, this very movie and scene came to mind. This simply isn’t God’s plan for marriage. But in our elation and newfound feelings of love we make the mistake of thinking that if someone has a quality we don’t that they make up for us as a human being in some way when in fact it just prevents us from growing in that area. This eventually shows itself in the strain and fighting that finds its way into many marriages. We have to be a complete person in and of ourselves, and see ourselves for “whose” we are rather than searching for significance and completion in and through another human being.