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For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God." Colossians chapter 3

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verse 3. If you're in a low place right now, I want you to know it's not your

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permanent address. Colossians 3 3 says your life is now hidden with Christ in

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God. That became your permanent place. No circumstance can undo it. But here's what

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I found. You can never lose your real life in Christ, but you may lose your

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awareness of it from time to time. And that happens when we become more

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astonished by what's happening around us than by the one who is living inside of

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us. When the circumstances get loud, we can sometimes forget who we are. We

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forget we're new creations. We forget we are one with Christ. And when we forget,

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we can tend to go back to who we used to be. Old habits, old thought patterns, old

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ways of coping. Not because the old self is still alive, but because it's familiar.

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That's the difference between identity and awareness. Your identity in Christ

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never changes. It's fixed in Jesus. But your awareness of it can shift from time

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to time. The low place didn't undo who you are. It just can make it harder to

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see. You deal with trials, you deal with suffering, you deal with life

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differently when you realize you are not subject to it. The low place you may find

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yourself in is real, but it is under your feet, not over your head. You are

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hidden with Christ and God, even here, wherever you find yourself today. The

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invitation is not to try to become someone new, it's to remember who you

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already are.