Why It’s ok to be unseen

Realizing that our life is "hidden in Christ" Col 3:3

Do you ever feel unseen? All that you do? The skills that you have?

I feel unseen all the time. It doesn’t feel good. I wish I was more recognized! I wish people saw the efforts I put in.

Often times we think that the solution is:

• to be seen by others.

• gain more notoriety

• fight and claw for our honor

But those actually will leave us more empty. Jesus said those who honor themselves will be humbled (Luke 14:7-11).

I was reading a passage in Colossians recently. I just so happened to feel a bit unseen at this time. The passage stopped me in my track and totally changed how I thought about feeling unseen. It writes:

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. Col 3:3

Did you hear that? Your life is hidden with Christ.

It’s like the reality of my life is not the things I define myself with. It’s not my job, my ministry, my family, my wife, and what they say or think about me.

I was meditating on this passage and this is what I saw:

I imagined walking into a bedroom of heaven where God’s plan for my life is. It’s like a bedroom with ambitions, desires, and dreams for us printed on a wall. I see goals I’m supposed to hit, I see struggles that he’s planning for me, and I see the contributions I’m supposed to make.

When I enter that room, my heart is elated because I see that God has been seeing me. He is thinking about me, tracking my every move (for good!). He’s been planning and watching all along!

When I feel insignificant, I think, like the rest of the world the solution is more fame more notoriety. However, this passage says the solution is to go to the hidden place where God sees our life.

Envisaging my hidden life in Christ rescues me from the times of feeling unseen and needing to be seen horizontally.

If you feel unseen, remember that your life is hidden with Christ.

If heaven had a bedroom where your life was planned, what do you see there?

You were made for greatness,
Phil