Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me to set my mind on things above as I live each day in obedience to Your voice. Help me each step to be faithful not looking to be fruitful. Hide me under the shadow of the mighty cross where You give your precious life for me no matter what the wind and waves are around me like- I am safe and secure in your hands, I declare! In Your name, Amen.

When a child of God lives in total surrender and submission his will to live and having his own way of life becomes hidden in Christ as in  Col 3: 2-3. Again The Bible says in Col 3: 2-10, “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears then you also will appear with him in glory.”

Being hidden in Christ is similar to the dormancy in a seed when hidden under the soil when it doesn’t seem like it is germinating though the required conditions (temperature, humidity, oxygen, and light) are provided. Dormancy is based on hard seed coat impermeability or the lack of supply and activity of enzymes (internal dormancy) necessary for germination which is like the beginning stages of sanctification.

About this ‘hidden life’ scripture says,whoever loses his life for Jesus’s sake and for his testimony will find it, it cannot be lost. This life which is lost will temporarily seem to be lost but it is hidden in Christ like in the case of the germinating seed. 

The life that we have is so precious that we can’t save it any other way but only by losing it for Jesus.

Being hidden in Christ  actually makes life easier because, for example, we can be content even when we are overlooked.Self is somebody’s personality, especially as perceived by others or somebody’s own individual interests and welfare, especially when placed before those of other people.

We are hidden Christ and dying to self we find freedom from the self-focused life.  

A writer by name Evelyn Underhill describes:  “We mostly spend our  lives conjugating three verbs: ‘to want’, ‘to have’, and ‘to do.’ By Craving, Clutching and Fussing, we are kept in perpetual unrest.” Quite simply, when we die to self, we are no longer obsessed with self.The danger of being “lukewarm” is a symptom of unwillingness to die to self and live for Christ. 

Jesus will discard lukewarm followers who try to live partly in the old life and partly in the new!