Hid with Christ: The Christian Lifestyle

What does it mean to be “”hid in Christ?””
To be “hid in Christ” is to live life on earth from a consciousness of our position in Christ Jesus. It is to walk on earth from an understanding of our position of advantage in Christ. This can be described with a mother, unborn baby scenario.
The baby relies on the mother’s body at this point in his/her life. The mother’s body is the baby’s shelter and also the source of the baby’s food. This system is so sure that even if the mother doesn’t take food for a while, the baby will still be nourished from her own reserved body nutrients. Every part of her body is committed towards the baby’s growth and development, and the baby’s care is sure as long as he/she remains in this structure. There can be fluctuations when the baby is eventually born based on conditions surrounding his mother in the physical, but hid within, the baby will always be surrounded with the potential of care and support provided by his mother’s body system. It will be an anomaly, though, if the baby begins to worry about being provided for even though his/her mother’s womb is still in view.
This is also a description of how strange it feels when Christians live life, like the provision of Christ does not exist. It is a huge anomaly.

God is responsible for we, believers, and he is bound by his faithfulness in keeping this responsibility. And so we must be willing to trust his sufficiency even more than the baby trusts his mother’s body.

There are three keys to living a hidden in Christ:
1) Having a thought life rooted in the Word.
This is so vital to living a life hid in Christ because of how dependent our lives are on the flow of our thoughts. Your ability to think the Word will determine how well you walk in it.

2) Living for the will of God.
To live in God’s will is to live in God’s provision and his resources. This should never be an initiative to take from God necessarily. Think of it as the placenta that positions you to receive what is yours from God. God wants you to have his things, but obedience to his will brings you into what he desires for you.
A wise believer is the one who angulates his life to satisfy the desire on the heart of God at all times. He will live life from God’s provision even if the world suffers lack.

3) Consistent labor for knowledge.
You must continually hunger for knowledge that puts you on the advantage of aligning ourselves to God. You must be willing to take a deep search to know what is on the heart of God at all times so you can position yourself in that same place. Searching by the scriptures, by scripture related books, and by fellowship with the Holy Spirit.

All of this ultimately boils than to one word, choice. You can be a servant of devil and a slave to his intentions because of your choice, or you can be yielded to God and his good intentions for you instead by the same instrument of choice.

Romans 6:14
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?

Our choices have a telling impact not just on our lives but also on people around us. We are supposed to spread God’s impact around us. And so by making wrong choices, we will not only stifle the possibilities of God over our lives, we would also starve our generation of a dimension of God.”