Three descriptive levels of FULLNESS came to my mind yesterday.

A discussion of the Mother of Jesus
holding Him and looking upon Him with wonder, after His birth….
and a song by Francesca Battistelli entitled, “You’re Here” brought this to my thinking.

The Word I read and believe in tells me that in the FULLNESS of TIME God brought His Son into the world.

I do not understand that completely.

In some ways, there was a
governmental power in place to enforce law and tax people…and get them to go to their home cities to be counted and pay the levied tax.

These things served to fulfill the foretelling of this Birth.

There was access to roads to travel, crudely, built by that same governmental authority, and access to board when they arrived, even though none was available.

So, civilization had moved toward order enough to where these things could be realized.

While Rome exercised military might and order, Greece had earlier allowed for a common language to be spoken.

These things, along with many others, can be speculated on to define the “fullness” of time.

However I try to explain it….
The Word I read says it was in the
Fullness of Time…..
so said by The Creator.

If He said it was the “fullness of time”….then I accept it.

Secondly, FULLNESS was exhibited and voiced by The Childs’ Mother as she held the baby in her arms.

As with most women at this moment,
there is experienced a profound sense of accomplishment and relief in the delivery of a living, healthy child.

She had been visited by Gabriel, the heralding angel. He told her many things about the child before it came.

Another, and most likely greater, element to her FULLNESS was that the prophesied Savior of her world was brought to life through her, and now she was holding Him…..

watching Him take his first breath,

and remembering all that had been told her.

Her FULLNESS was built on the angels’ words,
the pregnancy that followed,
the expectation of what was to come ….
and now the actual coming to life of The Baby

Who had now changed her life

Who was to change all of Life,

with His Life.

Her FULLNESS had grown from her visit to her cousin when she was told by Elizabeth that the unborn child in her womb had jumped when she had heard Mary’s voice.

It elevated her sense of wonder,
further gave credence to the angels words
and was another support beam in her realization of what was taking place.

All of these preliminaries contributed to her growing sense of FULLNESS …. completely realized when the child was born.

Battistelli’s song could very well have captured all she could say ….. “You’re Here”.

Find that song and listen.

She may have been speechless with the Joy that filled her mind and heart and spirit.

A similar speechless wonder can overcome us at times.

A young quarterback, who received his sports’ highest trophy this weekend, made his way through his speech …
but at times when he reached certain points of expressing thanks was so FULL of gratitude to his coach … and school…..
emotion surpassed elocution
and overflowed his eyes with tears,
as his attempt at words was temporarily surpassed by silence.

He was so FULL …
he was enable to find words at the moment of extreme emotion and gratitude.

For the first time this year he was unable to execute….
the sense of Joy, Gratitude and
Thankfulness temporarily overcame any ability to speak.

That’s the picture of a FULL heart.

In the FULLNESS of another time
which is foretold to come….
those who believe in and follow that
Child Who Mary held will experience a similar beyond-the-senses FULLNESS.

The Word He spoke says He will come again for us.

If we are alive, we will SEE IT.

We will be instantly transformed into
what we cannot currently fully know or explain.

We will experience this unearthly
FULLNESS
and with mouths agape in wonder and Joy
and without ability to express it……

we will KNOW IT.

Our eyes
our senses,
our hearts…

will be filled to overflowing FULLNESS.

As the time was when He first came….

As Mary was when she held Him in her arms
along with all of the angels foretelling she held quietly in her heart…

We shall be filled beyond earthly measure.

The Fulfillment of Hope.

The Fulfillment of every completed foretelling in The Word we follow.

We may indeed shout
“You’re Here”……

with Joyful Wonder
wrapped in realized fulfillment.

FULLNESS.