Covered With Christ

07Nov09

Colossians 3:3 “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”

The Chinese language has a great symbol for the truth if this verse. The word for righteousness is a combination of two pictures. On the top is a lamb. Beneath the lamb is a person. The lamb covers the person. Isn’t that the essence of righteousness? It is the Lamb of Christ over the child of God. Whenever God looks down on you… what does He see? He sees His Son, the perfect Lamb of God, hiding you. Christians are like their ancestor Abel. We come to God by virtue of the flock. Cain came with the works of his own hands. God turns him away. Abel came, and we come, dependent upon the sacrifice of the Lamb, and we are accepted. Like the Chinese symbol, we are covered by the lamb, hidden in Christ.

 When God looks at you, He doesn’t see you; He sees Jesus. And how does He respond when He sees Jesus? He rends the heavens and vibrates the earth with the shout, “And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Mark 1:11)

 Challenge:
How “ya lookin” today?
Are you “lookin” up? If you do you’ll see the Lamb covering you… WOW!
When accepted Jesus you came under the Lamb of God, and God sees you as you are in Christ and you see God through Jesus.

This is true tunnel vision.

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