If you are like me, I can often get impatient with God’s timing. I wonder why judgment hasn’t fallen on the wicked or why an answer to prayer hasn’t arrived yet. But Scripture shows that God works by measure, not by human impulse. This is a comforting thought: nothing with God moves early and nothing is late. God waits until something is full.
1. Fullness Governs Judgment
God is patient, but His patience is not infinite. He allows sin to run its course, but He has a limit. Judgment is never a rushed reaction; it is a measured response.
Genesis 15:16, “But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.”
God told Abraham his descendants had to wait four hundred years because the cup of the Amorites’ sin wasn’t overflowing yet.
Matthew 23:32, “Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.”
Jesus told the religious leaders of His day that they were topping off the cup of sin their ancestors started. When the cup is full, judgment falls.
2. Fullness Governs Redemption
The greatest events in history happened exactly when the “measure” was met. God is gathering and moving according to an exact schedule.
Galatians 4:4, “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son…”
Christ came at the exact second the Father appointed. This applies to the future as well:
Romans 11:25, “…until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”
The church age is measured. There is a specific number God has appointed, and when that measure is reached, this age will end.
3. Fullness Governs the Christian Life
As believers, we have two realities when it comes to fullness.
Positionally Full: Colossians 2:10 says, “And ye are complete in him.” In Christ, you have everything you need for heaven. The measure is full.
Practically Growing: Ephesians 3:19 tells us we should be “filled with all the fulness of God.” We are complete in Christ, but we are daily yielding so that His life can fill us.
Ephesians 5:18, “…but be filled with the Spirit;”
This is a daily command. Our yielding determines our daily fullness.
4. Fullness Governs Joy and Supply
God didn’t leave us here to run on fumes. He wants our lives to be an overflow of His strength!
John 1:16, “And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.”
We are called to draw from His overflow, not our own empty tanks. This leads to a joy that isn’t based on circumstances, but on obedience.
John 15:11, “These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.”
If you don’t understand the Law of Fullness, you will live a life of frustration.
- Impatience is simply doubting God’s timing.
- Presumption ignores the fact that God is measuring our actions.
- Faith is what allows us to rest while God fills the cup.
Whether He is judging, sending, ending, or filling, God is always in the process of fullness.
