QUICKENED QUOTE FROM MOVIE:  “This is your choice, but once you get your name out there, it is very hard to get it back.”

{The couple was TV going public and telling their side of an issue about the birth of their child.  It caused great public controversy.  In the end, the doctor told the media the child had died, so that she and family could have a chance to grow up without public pressure.  They moved to a remote and secret location.}

Col 3:1-4 NKJV

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden {#2729} with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

krupto

NT:2928 krupto (kroop'-to); a primary verb; to conceal (properly, by covering):

KJV - hide (self), keep secret, secret [-ly].

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1 Peter 3:3-4 NKJV

Do not let your adornment be merely outward — arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel —  4 rather let it be the hidden {#2729} person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

kruptos

NT:2927 kruptos (kroop-tos'); from NT:2928; concealed, i.e. private:

KJV - hid (-den), inward [-ly], secret.

Ps 139:15-17 NKJV

My frame was not hidden {5642}  from You, When I was made in secret {3582}, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.  How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is

cether

OT:5643 cether (say'-ther); or (feminine) cithrah (Deut 32:38), (sith-raw'); from OT:5641; a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense):

KJV - backbiting, covering, covert, disguise [-th], hiding place, privily, protection, secret (-ly, place).

OT:3582

OT:3582 kachad (kaw-khad'); a primitive root; to secrete, by act or word; hence (intensively) to destroy:

KJV - conceal, cut down (off), desolate, hide.

WORD TO PONDER:  HIDDEN IN CHRIST   5/16/08

When you are born again, the seed I plant inside of you is covered and protected just like a baby in a womb.  As your self life decreases and your God life increases, you die to seeking things on the earth, and place your hope and values on above where I sit with My Father.  Your inner man is secretly covered away from the world you have died to.  It does not appear what you shall become but you are hidden in Me.  I carefully conceal My seed within you and grow you up to where My fullness lives inside of you.  All My thoughts towards you are written before you were born, but they are kept secret so that the glory ready to be revealed in you will appear only when I appear with you. 

Col 3:1-4 NKJV

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.