Life is full of complements; no body lacks everything entirely and nobody has everything entirely. We only find out soon how much we need the other folk, amidst all the things we have known we can do on our own.
And how astonishing it is for us to stumble into the realization that most people, much more than we know need us around to survive, not necessarily to continue living but to survive the hurts that try to bleach life and make it a world of depression instead of satisfaction and fulfillment with a hope anchored on eternity with Christ.
Most times God has punctured my pride! When I assume the frame of a peacock in my heart thinking, I have all I ever wanted. I look around me and see the souls that just need my company to retain smile on their faces-Those who have carved me with gold in their hearts, many more who have placed much value on my utterances even when I say things that do not make sense, they ensure that I am retained in that lofty position in their heart. I had then come to realize this; my worth is a little less if I take it upon my heart that I have everything I should have and only need to dispense the much virtues that I have convinced myself I should have in abundance and do not actually need anything from anybody.
When we think we have it all, we are not only surprised when we realize that we only have an iota of the many good things God has given to mankind, but if we are not careful, our astonishment can degenerate into jealousy much faster than we think we can control our thoughts. Then, the best way to have all, and indeed then only way, is to see others as a part of you and you as a part of others. This are not just complementarities, it is a relationship which one assumes to have all the good things he wants, yet, he possessed just but a few of it and only an iota proceed from him.
We enjoy the things we made up our mind to enjoy. Moreover, that includes enjoying the presence of God. When we’ve come to realize that God did not put all his treasures in any man aside Christ, but even in Christ we do not altogether possess all we need until we see Christ giving us all He possesses through direct communion with Him and secondly by our relationship with other people. We often think Christ would give us applause if we tell Him that we do not have need of our fellow man because we have him. Maybe He will just smile and shake his head in pity, for a any man who reasons this has not seen the treasures of Christ that exude from others. When we realize that in Christ we can enjoy all things, both the things we have directly in our possession and the ones we can access in others; then we will see that even that little fellow that sits besides us during sermon, is as important to us as the preacher. For life can be boring if you fail to see Christ in your brother or sister.
Failure to see this usually degenerates to depression and boredom in our walk with God. Nevertheless, the extent we can see Christ in other people and that we can access without envy, the treasures of Christ made available to us in others, is dependent upon our understanding of Christ in relation to the folks around us.
We may have asked, if all we need is Christ, why then did God give us all these things with Christ? Is Christ not just enough for us? Well, the things God gave us with Christ are actually all in Christ. Nevertheless, God gave us all things with Christ so that in having Christ we would see all things in him. However, a man who possesses only the physical/material aspect of these things with Christ Himself only has a shadow of the real thing. Shadows are never celebrated. Only substances are. We can live gracefully if we see all that God has given us in Christ in other people. Nobody ever enjoys the things he possesses without envy of the things he does not possess until he discovers that the things he does not possess are actually part of his belongings, if he learns to enjoy it as though they were his.[1 Cor. 3:21]

by
Agbaroji Chimeremeze