I Am in Christ Jesus

“Hidden with Christ in God”

Colossians 3:3 (KJV)

 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

After Christ died he was seen no more by the world. It is true that for forty days he appeared repeatedly on earth, but only to his own disciples. The world never saw him after the stone was rolled against the entrance of the sepulchre in Joseph's garden on the night of the Crucifixion. And soon he ascended to heaven to be with God, and was no longer visible even to his own followers. But he will come again, when "every eye shall behold him." Now, a similar experience is that of he true life of the Christian. He has died to the old life in the world which the world fully understood. He has risen to a new life which the world does not understand - a secret, internal, spiritual life united to the life of Christ and hidden in God. But this life will be revealed when Christ appears again.

~ W.F. Adneney