Hidden in God

'Your life is hidden with Christ in God.' (Colossians 3:3)

By: Peter Walker

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 37 mins

Publisher's summary

I love to hide. I love to get off the grid of life, even just for half an hour. I sometimes make a cup of coffee, turn off my phone, and sit on the floor somewhere in a back room of the house, or in the shed, and just close my eyes.

We live in a torn and broken life. Think about your day for a minute. Everything we do is survival: working for money, using it buy food to ward off hunger, to pay rent for a roof overhead; washing clothes for work, sleeping for energy to work, appointments for health, for teeth, for hair, for repair… car breaks down and insurance won’t pay. And then there are relationships. Misunderstandings, disappointments, gossip, envy, regrets, insecurities, bullies… All day every day, every year till you die. Moses put it this way:

‘Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.’ (Psalm 90:10)

We pick up on life’s pressures – and dangers - from a very young age. For this reason kids love to make forts in their bedrooms, little shelters within shelters, so to speak. And as adults we do exactly the same thing, from secret societies to country clubs, we are just trying to huddle and hide.

God gets this. He knows we are weary and afraid. Jesus ached to give us safety and shelter. He once said, looking out over the people: ‘How I have longed to gather you together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings.’ (Matthew 23:37)

In this short book we look at the safety God offers us, a hiding place for our souls even now as we do life, and then forevermore…