“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”
The Face
Paul names a striking location here, hid with Christ in God, your actual life, described not as fully visible or exposed, but genuinely hidden, in the safest, most secure location this verse could describe. This is worth holding as real comfort against whatever exposure or vulnerability your own identity currently feels.
This does not contradict the earlier movement’s exploration of being fully seen and known. It adds a needed layer, seen and known genuinely, and also hid, safely, with Christ in God, protected from whatever might otherwise threaten or diminish this deeper identity, secured in a location nothing external can actually reach.
Notice ye are dead, the condition named preceding this hiding, an old identity genuinely ended, and life, your actual, ongoing life, now relocated, hid with Christ, not exposed to whatever forces might otherwise threaten it, but genuinely secured in this described, protected place.
Whatever threatens your own sense of secure identity today, comparison, criticism, uncertainty, receive this verse’s claim as genuinely true. Your actual life is hid with Christ in God, secured in a location safely beyond whatever external threat currently feels most pressing against your own sense of who you are.
Turn Your Face
- Notice whatever currently threatens your own sense of secure identity.
- Receive today that your actual life is hid with Christ in God, safely beyond that threat.
- Rest in this secured location today, rather than anxiously defending your identity yourself.
Prayer
Lord, my life is hid with Christ in God, safely secured beyond whatever threatens it. Let me rest in this hidden security today, rather than anxiously defending myself. Amen.
Carry this today
Your actual life is safely hidden, secured in a location nothing external can reach.