What does it mean to you as a believer?

Question

To have your life hid with Christ in God.
Col 3:3
" For you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God"

Give some insight to this verse and share some of your own personal experiences as a christian as it relates to this verse.

Ty so much
In Christ
sandy

Answer 1

Read in context, Col. 3:1-3 is talking about dying to the things of this life and living for the life to come. Paul repeatedly talks about being in Christ. This is different than being in the flesh or in Adam. In Christ, we possess everything we need for a spiritually fulfilling life. In Christ we have all we need for righteousness. Being hid with Christ in God conveys the sense that God has us where He wants us, and we are acknowledging that fact.

This verse contrasts the passages before and after, where the Colossians were being urged to put off the old man and to reject rules that cannot profit them spiritually.

Answer 2

I believe that this means that Christ is within all of us and that it is kept a mystery,such as with an understanding of "god" it is hidden so that we may all discover Christ within ourselves in our own way so that the experience has more validation within the heart, or when you truly dedicate your life to "god" your old self dies and your new ways are a mystery to others with the name of Christ used as the reason for your change of ways.

Answer 3

Hi Sandy,
I think of it like this, If we are in his hands, and we know that of all these he has lost none. Then we are totally wrapped in the hands of Christ and his are then wrapped by the hands of God. I have so many times needed for the Lord to help me and care for me to help me to understand things in this life that I didn't. Like when my Aunt died of Breast Cancer, at the age of 38 with a 2 year old baby who she had prayed her whole married life for. I couldn't understand how such a thing could happen to one so godly as her. The Lord came and gave me a thought and It has helped me with all the loved ones I have lost in my life. You see I think that he has all aspects of our lives in his mind and will take us and hide us in the palm of his had when we need to be. I trust him to do as he promised me he would do, and that is to take care of every need.

"Now for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God", I think means to be dead to the things of the world, to have our desires on things above and on him. If we are in Christ Jesus, and he is in us we have the greatest gift ever given. I praise His Holy name for all the times he has hidden me in the palm of his hand, and kept the world from taken away my joy in Him. You know that is all it can do it steal our joy, never our Salvation, that has already been paid for and nothing can change that.

Answer 4

to me this means i have an escape for when life is
overwhelming. also for a way to hide from the flesh.
to enter into a relationship with YESHUA that is greater
than the flesh and the world. a place to go to when one
can't find the answer or have strength enough to fight.
" and when the battle is won, you will still be standing."
Ephesians 6: 13.

Answer 5

One is the easy way....to beleive Jesus rose from the dead for you. Live your life as best as you can.
2. is to belive jesus rose for the dead, but died for the sinner, not the righteous. This is the kings road, hard. How do you be like the one that is righteous? when Jesus says you do not need to be healed because I already healed you, and not with his blood. Matthew 9:13...this does not say he hates the righteous , but they just do not need his blood to get into heaven. But how does one become rigteous as God when he says all our righteousness are as dirty as rags next to his? Romans 3:11...if you seek him with all your heart, you can understand him, and his yoke will be easy. To understand rigteousness, and the potter is the real way to get into heaven. This way the king did not have to die for us, but be loved by us. It talks about this way in Job28:7-28.. read it, to understand departs evil....and you become holy and righteous as God.

Answer 6

We are to die to self every moment of every day, and live for Jesus Christ. WHen we submit to His will , His desires will be our desires. God commands us to be like Jesus Christ, He does NOT just merely suggest it. It is simply put, REQUIRED. WHen we hide our life with Christ in God, this is what it means. For we ourselves and our own natural self with selfish desires, motives, all that is of the fallen sin natures, we have died to all of that and it is not in us anymore. WE live as Jesus Christ lived, and speak as HE spoke, boldly, without fear or compromise. We are not ashamed of the gospel. WE live for Jesus Christ, and desire to be more like Him daily, moment by moment. WE have now been give a new nature, we are a new cration, we have the mind and character of Christ. This can only be done because of the shed blood of Jesus on calvary, and by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Insight on this?? Well, have you got forever to sit and hear this lady tell you? OH MY. I can only say that living for Jesus has totally changed me, and my life. Such joy, such peace, such purpose, such destiny, that I know that I will always have victory over all things, becuause of what JEsus gave me at the cross.
What does it mean to have everything this world has to offer, unless you have Jesus? IT would be of no value whatsover. All the riches and power of the world are not compared to the love of God.
And to know how much God loves us, and who we are in Jesus Christ, and to know how to tap into the power of the Holy Spirit to do ALL God has called us to do, is something ONE just cant put into words to do it justice. TO GOD BE THE GLORY< GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE AND CONTINUES TO DO>
Because of Jesus, we live..... CELEBRATE JESUS TODAY< and let God show you how to hide your life in JEsus Christ. No other way to salvation and no other way to have peace and joy in this world. Incredible LOVE>>>>
HALLELUJAH>

Answer 7

It is not I who lives, but Christ who lives in me. Galatians 2:20 - "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me." God bless you!!!