“3 For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, Who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in [the splendor of His] glory.” -Colossians 3: 3 – 4 (AMP)
What is genuine true change?
Everyone wants it and everyone desires it in their life. Whether it’s as simple as losing weight; or as big as starting a whole new career or getting married. The truth of the matter is, in some form or fashion, we all desire change to take place in our lives.
But I must ask you, what is true change?
True change IS NEVER the exchanging of the bad side of the tree of knowledge for the good side of the tree!
True change is NOT the exchanging of habits, the stopping of a particular behavior; or the learning of new information!
True change is always the death of YOUR life with Christ and the Revelation of your new “Real Life” now hidden with Christ in God! (Colossians 3: 3-4) True change is the counting of all that has defined you and has given you purpose, AS DUNG, for the Excellency of the Knowledge of Him who is now your Life! (Philippians 3: 4-8)
Whenever Christ is Revealed in your Soul, it will completely DESTROY everything you thought and imagined about Life, purpose, and success; even what you thought and believed about yourself! Furthermore, let me say this to clarify… the purpose is never to destroy these things because they are bad or perverted, or because God wants you to be some kind of robot with no personality or individuality.
These things are being destroyed because they were never founded on TRUTH; but on the LIE!
The things that are being destroyed were never “real” in the first place and they were never found out from the Reality of my present “New Real Life” that is hidden in Christ. Instead, these are the imaginations, thoughts, opinions and ideas that we all have formed about life out from the “Adamic-man” that has been put away in the Death and Burial of Jesus Christ!
See, as long as I seek to hold on to MY view; MY understanding, MY opinions, MY perspectives, MY ideas (you get the point lol) IN PLACE OF THE TRUTH, that can only be seen and known in the revealing of Christ in my soul; I will never experience genuine transformation that leads to true authentic change!
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. -John 6:53
The Human Soul, apart from the MIND of Christ, simply does not know life or even comprehend what “Real Life” truly is. The Human Soul, apart from the LIFE of Christ, can only imagine and dream about what Life is. It can only make up what “Life” is according to its own liking or, better yet, push the experience of “True Life” off into the distant sweet by and by.
But “Real Life” can be known and experienced in the “nasty now and now” because Christ did not come to give us a better idea about Life, He came to be “Life” living and abiding in our soul causing us to experience and manifest it here in the earth!
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. – John 10:10
The Life that Jesus gives us abundantly is His Resurrected Body, that we have all been made members of by Faith. Therefore, we must accept that Life can ONLY come from the Source of Life itself, who is Jesus Christ! And Life is not something that God gives to you; it is Christ Himself living and abiding in you causing your soul to be transformed into an expression of His Glory!
Let me leave you with this to meditate on and consider: What we have come to call life and experience as life, apart from Christ being revealed in our souls, is nothing more than the unrenewed mind of man creating its own personal reality, based on its own view, perspective, opinions, ideas and understanding!
Feel free to drop me a comment or question below, I would love to hear from you! Until next time, may Grace and Peace continually abound towards you!
John
Hidden With Christ In God 