hide & seek

how many have ever played the childhood game of hide & seek? i think we all remember loving to scope out the best hiding places at grandma's house...the places most certain where no one...not even your oldest friend or cousin would find you. i remember always wanting to get to the shed at my great-grandmothers house and find a way to sneak inside the doors of the shed without anyone hearing me open and close the doors...or someone's vehicle always made a great hiding place if you could get in without the "it" hearing you get in. this fun spirited game has made me think a lot this week about the verse Paul wrote to the church in Colosse.
Colossians 3:3... "for you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God..."
so what does that really mean? the old man is gone, the old nature is gone because you died with Christ...so He died for me but also as me...and if you're hidden in Christ it must be pretty difficult for the enemy (and there is definitely an enemy) to find you. if you ever found one of those great hiding places the only way you could ever be found was to expose yourself...to make a noise so someone would hear you...to give some type of clue as where you are...or to actually step out into the open and be found. maybe that is what we do spiritually...we step out of our hiding place in Christ and expose ourselves to the enemy. why would we ever do that...could it be that we get bored with the hiding place? if so, then we don't really know Him!
i guess i'm thinking that if we would take seriously our hiding place in Christ...it would make it much more difficult for the enemy to impact our lives.
how's your hiding going?