It’s a beautiful, sunshiny, white Wednesday. Yesterday we had snow, only about an inch, but it is really pretty. Am hoping to go out and get a few pictures after it warms up a bit. The weather has been so cold, but up until now there was no snow; so we were rather excited when it started snowing. I love snow!
“Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?” (Job 38:22a)
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Isaiah 1:18)
It has been a couple of days since I posted a Change Journey verse. This is because I took a little aside to study more in the book of Job. What rich treasures are found in that book! But now I am back to the Change Journey verses, and today’s Change Journey verse is again Colossians 3:3. The last half of this verse tells the second reason why I should set my affection on things above and not on things on the earth. It says, “…your life is hid with Christ in God.”
My life is hid with Christ in God. It is concealed (by covering); it is kept secret. (See Strong’s)
My life in Christ is a secret life. It is known only to God and me. Near to God’s heart is a special place made just for me by Jesus Christ. That place is one of safety. No one besides me and my Savior can enter it. There I am carried in my Father’s bosom and kept by His love. (See Isaiah 40:11) Sin cannot enter there. Satan cannot harm me there. It is my hiding place. (See Psalm 32:6,7)
My life in Christ is a secure life. God holds me safe to His heart where I am kept by His powerful, loving hands. There in that safe haven, nothing can pluck me out of God’s hand. (See John 10:27-30) In Christ I have received eternal life. No one can take that life from me.
When my earthly life is ended, my life in Christ will go on. I will still be safe in my Father’s bosom, held close to the heart of God by His powerful hands. But there will be nothing to molest me, no sin to tempt me, no pain or sorrow to afflict me – only peace and happiness for ever.
Seeing this is my future and my life is even now safely held until then, my affection should not be on earthly things. They do not belong to me. They are only borrowed for a while. There is an inheritance reserved in heaven for me. I should set my heart on that inheritance which is “incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven” for me. (See I Peter 1:4)