“Your life is hid with Christ in God.”

[JPalmer]

GOLDEN TEXT: COLOSSIANS 3 : 3
“Your life is hid with Christ in God.”

I had wondered about this statement for a while, but when I read it this week I thought of my practitioner saying that certain books — such as Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Precepts by Gilbert Carpenter — mean nothing unless you are actively using your Science.

It has me thinking about all that was hidden to me before coming here. Much (most?) of the beauty of God’s creation was lost on me, bringing to thought “Having eyes, see ye not?” (Mark 8:18) Finding I can trust God always, and knowing now that His inspiration and abundance is coming to me, and all, constantly. All that, and the sense of place and purpose I now have; those two things I longed for in the first decades of my life.

I now feel at least one way to read the Golden Text is: If you feel lost, or feel like you are waiting for something, or feel like you are living someone else’s life — “Your life is hid with Christ in God.” This also brings me new understanding of “seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matthew 6:33) Our true life is literally in God and cannot be seen, lived, or experienced without Christ destroying that “incarnate error” (1) which is hiding it.

Thank you very much for this lesson, and all that is being taught here.

—

(1) “CHRIST. The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error.” Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 583

[Author]

Posts