Our Identity in Christ Starts /NOW/

If I were to pick one verse out of the entire Bible which has encouraged and directed my life more than any other verse, I think it would be Colossians 3:3. “For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.” There are numerous companion versus such as Romans 6:8. “Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.” These verses, in fact the entire New Testament, highlight the fact of immediacy, that is, that my life in Christ is in the present, every moment of every day.

It’s no secret that a favorite subject of mine concerns our identity in Christ. True personal freedom comes from dying to ourselves and living the life of Christ in you — now!