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Scripture Writing 2026 Day 85 Colossians 3:3
Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God
When Paul says that the believer has died, he is referring to position, and not to practice. Because of Christ in His death, God wants us to consider ourselves as having died with Him. Our own hearts are always ready to dispute this fact, because we feel so very much alive to sin and temptation. But the wonderful thing is that as we by faith reckon ourselves to have died with Christ, it becomes a moral reality in our lives. If we live as those who have died, then our lives will become increasingly conformed to the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. Of course, we will never reach perfection in this life, but it is a process that should be going on in every believer.
Not only have we died, but also our life is hidden with Christ in God. The things that concern and interest the worldly man are found on this planet on which we live. However, the things that are of greatest concern to the believer are all bound up in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. His destiny and ours are inseparable. Paul’s thought is that since our life is hidden with Christ in God, we should not be occupying ourselves with the petty things of this world, and especially the religious world about us.
But there is another thought connected with the expression your life is hidden with Christ in God. The world does not see our spiritual life. Men do not understand us. They think it is strange that we do not live like they do. They do not comprehend our thoughts, our motives, or our ways. Just as it is said of the Holy Spirit that the world “neither sees Him, nor knows Him,” so it is with our spiritual life; it is hidden with Christ in God. First John 3:1 tells us: “Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.” The real separation from the world lies in the fact that the world does not understand, but rather misunderstands the believer.------ The Believer’s Bible Commentary.
