Colossians 3:1-4 CEB

Therefore, 

if you were raised with Christ, 

look for the things that are above where Christ is sitting at God's right side.

Think about the things above and not things on earth.

You died, 

and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ, 

who is your life, 

is revealed, 

then you also will be revealed with him in glory.  

Colossians 3:1-4 CEB

This verse came up at Church yesterday, and I tried sketching it:

Raised with Jesus.

Look up.

Look up where Jesus is with God the Father.

Think about things "up there".

And I've died in some sense, and my life is hidden, held, somehow in Jesus, in God the Father.

And, at some future time, Jesus is going to be revealed it seems in some new way, and we will be revealed with Him.

Somehow.

Can you see it all?

Maybe we're not supposed to see it, but to feel it.

Jesus said to his team just before his death that in this world you will have trouble, but to take heart, have courage, "because I have overcome the world".

Perhaps we're invited to feel that Jesus has this in hand, and he has us in his hands.

We're held. 

Secure.

Beloved.

And there's going to be some explosion of Life to come that we're going to experience and be in the middle of, and for now, in whaterver we face, we get offered this picture of being held by Jesus.

Secure.

Beloved.

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