YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD.

 

APRIL 13.
 
Your life is hid with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:3

 

OUR God is our refuge.
 
Christ is in the Father, and
  the Father is in Christ.
Our life is in Christ, and
  Christ is our life.
 
He represented us.
He died for us.
He sent his Holy Spirit into our hearts,
  as the Spirit of Life.
He lives for us in heaven.
 
We are identified with him, and
  our interests are identified with his.
 
The union between Christ and
  us is the closest possible.
 
We are members of his body,
  of this flesh, and of his bones.
We who are joined in the Lord
  are one spirit with him.
As the husband and the wife are no more twain,
  but one flesh;
  so Christ and his people are no more two,
    but one.
 
He is the Head, we are his members.
 
He thinks for us,
  cares for us,
  provides for us,
  listened to us,
  watch is over us, and
    glories in us.
 
He has eternally secured us,
  by hiding our life with himself in the Father.
 
O glorious, soul supporting truth !
 
May I ever look upon myself as one with Christ,
  and endeavour to live
  and walk just as Jesus did.
 
My life is a treasure, and Jesus to preserve it,
  hides it with himself in God,
    as in a treasure house.
 

Our real life with Christ conceal’d

Deep in the Father's bosom lies,

And glorious as our head reveal’d,

We soon shall meet him in the skies;

He comes to bring the crowning grace,

And near himself his people place.

 
James Smith 1849