For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God." Colossians chapter 3
verse 3. If you're in a low place right now, I want you to know it's not your
permanent address. Colossians 3 3 says your life is now hidden with Christ in
God. That became your permanent place. No circumstance can undo it. But here's what
I found. You can never lose your real life in Christ, but you may lose your
awareness of it from time to time. And that happens when we become more
astonished by what's happening around us than by the one who is living inside of
us. When the circumstances get loud, we can sometimes forget who we are. We
forget we're new creations. We forget we are one with Christ. And when we forget,
we can tend to go back to who we used to be. Old habits, old thought patterns, old
ways of coping. Not because the old self is still alive, but because it's familiar.
That's the difference between identity and awareness. Your identity in Christ
never changes. It's fixed in Jesus. But your awareness of it can shift from time
to time. The low place didn't undo who you are. It just can make it harder to
see. You deal with trials, you deal with suffering, you deal with life
differently when you realize you are not subject to it. The low place you may find
yourself in is real, but it is under your feet, not over your head. You are
hidden with Christ and God, even here, wherever you find yourself today. The
invitation is not to try to become someone new, it's to remember who you
already are.