“For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3).

Hid (Def): (Gr.): Krupto: To conceal by covering, keep secret

The Scriptures, from both Old and New constantly express the secret life of the saint. Such verses as:

“He that dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty” (Psalm 91:1).

Concealed by covering with a shadow, a hand (Exodus 33:22), feathers, or truth like a shield (Psalm 91:4); all cover and conceal us in the secret place, just as we are Hid With Christ in God.

Hid With Christ is an invisible place in the Spirit, not observable by man, but known to God. The words of our Lord apply here, as He said:

“. . .The Kingdom of God comes not with observation. Neither shall they say, ‘Lo here, or lo there! For, behold the Kingdom of God is within you'” (Luke 17:20-21).

It is even as the Apostle wrote to the Church at Rome: “The Kingdom of God is not meat or drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Romans 14:17).

Hid With Christ is an invisible place in the Holy Spirit in righteousness, in peace and in joy where “the joy of the Lord is our strength” (cf. Nehemiah 8:10).

Before we can get to a deeper life in God we have to accept a deeper death in ourselves. “Not as I will but as You will” (Matthew 26:39) was spoken by our Lord who was surrendered to the maximum to the will of the Father. Knowing we have died to self takes us into the deeper life of the Spirit, the Risen Life of Christ; it takes us into self-denial, bearing the Cross, and death to the old Adamic Nature. We “seek those things that are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God”. We “set our affection on things above, not on things on the earth” (Colossians 3:1-2); all springing forth out of death and into life, hid with Christ in the life of God.

It is, indeed, a blessed place to be, for our life is joined in the Life of Christ, and when that Life appears we appear also with Him in His Glory (cf. Colossians 3:4). We have been risen with Him and are now seated with Him in His Throne in the Heavens (cf. Ephesians 2:6).

Being Hid With Christ, having become one with Him in His Eternal Being as the Son of God, we now do all things in Him, in His Name, in His Nature of Love and Peace, giving all glory and honor to the Father who eternally planned and purposed all that we now are and have in Christ Jesus.

Our prayers, our worship, our witness all spring from our Life Hid with Christ, where He is revealed to the world as Lord, Son of God, with all authority and power in heaven and earth (cf. Matthew 28:18).

Recognition in the eyes of Man of Christ is a work of the Holy Spirit who alone can enlighten the eyes to see Him; who alone can open the ears to hear the voice of the Father and draw us to the Truth as it is in Christ, the Son.

Beloved, abide in Christ, remain Hid With Christ, and let His Life be revealed to the world through you, to all who will come unto God by Him.

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