Colossians 3:3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Our sin crushes us. Under the weight of sin, we have no escape. The law condemns us, as we are powerless to overcome the consequences of being law breakers, which we all are. Even if you could obey the law, which you can't, now until you die, you are still condemned by the law you already broke.
However the gospel tells us a different story; a story that reveals we have died and been made alive by God (Ephesians 2:5), and in Christ our former selves are hidden away and Jesus has given us a new lease on life. This life however, isn't given for us to do with it as we choose. Rather the next verse reveals what we are given.
Colossians 3:4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
We are given Christ. Jesus is now our life, and he is our reward. He clothes us in perfectly, with the clothing that we could never attain for ourselves (Isaiah 61:10). God himself has done this work in you (Colossians 2:13), and it had nothing to do with you being special, But he did it for his own name (Psalm 106:8, Isaiah 48:11).
My friends we are brought to worship when we see and are faced with our own destruction, and that God has saved us from it. He saved us by taking on himself what we deserved, and made for us a path that we could not make.
Romans 8:33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
Nothing can be brought against you who are in Christ, because no charge can be brought against Christ himself, and you are in him.
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