Safely Covered and Hidden
When I was a small boy, like most boys, I had a vivid imagination. I would watch monster movies with my older brothers and then go to bed and get scared in the dark. I imagined that if I covered myself with my blanket pulled over my head that whatever was in my room couldn’t see me. Being hidden beneath my trusty blanket gave me the peace I needed to go to sleep. I would almost bet you’d be able to relate to that experience in your own childhood story.
Believe it or not in the Bible there is call for us as God’s children to use our faith and imagination to realize we have been safely covered and hidden. If we get hold of this revelation is can really help us in our times of anxiousness and fear. It can also help us in our times of temptation.
Colossians 3:2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
The reality of being hidden with Christ in God is everything! What can see us in that place and what could possibly get past God to get to us?
Even better is the idea of what we can discover about our God as our Father from being hidden with Christ in Him. There’s a lot of love to discover in that place.
It is from our position of being hidden with Christ in God that we discover who He is, what He has done and who we truly are and what we are to be.
You know, without the security of my trusty blanket as a kid I would have had many a restless nights and it would have taken a toll on me physically and mentally.
When it comes to spirit and soul true rest belongs to those who have the revelation of what it means to be in Christ. Our heavenly identity is inalterably tied to your position in Christ.
Today we are victorious not because circumstances will end the way we want but because despite circumstances and fearful challenges our life is hid with God in Christ!
Our security is in Jesus and we are citizens of His kingdom which is righteousness, joy and peace in the Holy Spirit. Having a tough time? Try to remember that you are under a powerful covering today.
Podcast Episode #01 Transcript - Love Guaranteed
Love can be guaranteed in life if you know where to go to get it.
Have you ever found yourself thinking about the reason Jesus came and what He was really saying to us? I personally do not believe that Jesus came to say, "Why can't you be like me so the Father will love you?"
If Jesus had said that He would have made the Father’s love for us conditional with an unattainable standard applied.
Many years ago I was someone who thought that way and I was often discouraged as a result because I knew how much I wasn’t like Jesus. Thankfully the Holy Spirit revealed the truth of the good news to me.
I believe Jesus came because we were nothing like Him and even on our best days we still miss the mark. Thankfully we are told in,
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
God loved us even when we were not aware of Him and living in rebellion to Him.
The Bible teaches us that Jesus came to give us a righteousness we could never earn. A righteousness the Father would approve of and welcome. God’s own righteousness. This reality is our security.
The Bible says that God cannot deny Himself and since it is His Own Righteousness we now possess in Christ, He will not deny us.
The law of Moses was never a way of being made truly righteous before Him. It revealed righteousness very clearly and as a result condemned us. That’s why when it was in force regular sacrifices were required due to the fact that no one fulfilled its demands. If the standard of holiness it required could have been attained there would have been no need for the shedding of blood for the remission of sins over and over again.
The righteousness God was desiring from before the foundation of the world and the law of Moses is the righteousness we now possess in Christ. It was the solution His Son Jesus would provide.
You see it was God’s plan all along that we be made righteous by grace through faith in Christ Jesus.
This glorious hope and promise cannot be found in any other person or method. We need not add anything to Jesus to have relationship with the Father and maintain it. Jesus completed the work at the cross, He rose from the dead proving He was authorized by God and then He ascended on high to sprinkle His own blood on the real mercy seat of heaven forever cleansing our sin.
This means we are a people of great hope, promise and everlasting life! Jesus finished the work!
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus sweetest name I know!