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God Is One, So I Am Whole

Wholeness begins with God. He is not fractured or fragmented. God is unchanging and unchangeable. He is holy. No matter what, God acts in accordance with who He is.

And who He is, is love.

God’s oneness and God’s love are connected. He cannot act outside of love because love is who He is. His pure, unselfish love defines everything He does. God is guided by love, committed to love, and motivated by love.

John mentioned the Spirit, the Father, and the Son, all in the context of love. He was showing us how the Trinity, or the three-person nature of God, is united in love and how that love unites us to God. John went on to say that love is “made complete” in us, and divine love drives out fear and makes us “perfect in love” (vv. 17–18).

Love can mean different things to different people, but God’s oneness is defined by holy love, and He completes us in that love. Selfishness has no place in God’s holiness, so His love always brings out the best in us.

What does that mean for you? When you aren’t feeling yourself (or when you are trying to figure out who “yourself” even is), love is the best place to turn. A lifestyle characterized by love will always be more whole, more authentic, and more congruent than a lifestyle characterized by selfishness or fear. It is a holy life.

How does love heal the fractures and close the fissures of the soul? In many ways. By affirming who you are right now, to start with. By aligning your priorities and guiding your decisions. By giving you courage to lay down your old sense of self so you can live in the reality of who you truly are.

If you find yourself a little scattered or fractured today, try leaning into God’s love. Let His consistency make you whole. Let His mercy give you peace. Let His faithfulness pull the pieces of your life back into alignment.

You don’t have to play a part. You don’t have to be tossed and turned, pushed and pulled, swayed and strained and stressed by the forces around you.

Be filled with holy love, and you’ll be wholly and authentically you.

Are there areas of your life—thoughts, emotions, goals, relationships—where you find yourself struggling to “be yourself”? What are they? What does it mean to you to be congruent, complete, authentic?