{"id":396705,"date":"2023-12-24T00:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T18:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=396705"},"modified":"2023-12-24T00:07:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T18:37:32","slug":"the-hidden-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2023\/12\/24\/the-hidden-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-74fcb39195daa3709197f110501a2819\"><strong>\u2026your life is hidden with Christ in God. \u2014Colossians 3:3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Spirit of God testifies to and confirms the simple, but almighty, security of the life that \u201cis hidden with Christ in God.\u201d Paul continually brought this out in his New Testament letters. We talk as if living a sanctified life were the most uncertain and insecure thing we could do. Yet it is the most secure thing possible, because it has Almighty God in and behind it. The most dangerous and unsure thing is to try to live without God. For one who is born again, it is easier to live in a right-standing relationship with God than it is to go wrong, provided we heed God\u2019s warnings and \u201cwalk in the light\u201d (1 John 1:7).<br>When we think of being delivered from sin, being \u201cfilled with the Spirit\u201d (Ephesians 5:18), and \u201cwalk[ing] in the light,\u201d we picture the peak of a great mountain. We see it as very high and wonderful, but we say, \u201cOh, I could never live up there!\u201d However, when we do get there through God\u2019s grace, we find it is not a mountain peak at all, but a plateau with plenty of room to live and to grow. \u201cYou enlarged my path under me, so my feet did not slip\u201d (Psalm 18:36).<br>When you really see Jesus, I defy you to doubt Him. If you see Him when He says, \u201cLet not your heart be troubled\u2026\u201d (John 14:27), I defy you to worry. It is virtually impossible to doubt when He is there. Every time you are in personal contact with Jesus, His words are real to you. \u201cMy peace I give to you\u2026\u201d (John 14:27)\u2014 a peace which brings an unconstrained confidence and covers you completely, from the top of your head to the soles of your feet. \u201c\u2026your life is hidden with Christ in God,\u201d and the peace of Jesus Christ that cannot be disturbed has been imparted to you.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026your life is hidden with Christ in God. \u2014Colossians 3:3 The Spirit of God testifies to and confirms the simple, but almighty, security of the life that \u201cis hidden with Christ in God.\u201d Paul continually brought this out in his New Testament letters. We talk as if living a sanctified life were the most uncertain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}