CHRIST the LINK to EVERY BLESSING: “Your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Col 3:3). The believer, in what seems to be a heart-wrenching beginning to our relationship, has been crucified together with Christ (Gal 2:20). Through this, His death becomes the way all charges against us have been cleared. And, having been executed in the Person of our blessed Substitute, we have also been made alive together with Christ (Col 2:13). It is not the resusitation of my old life, however, but the infusion of a whole new life—the very life of God. But we have also been raised up together with Christ (Eph 2:5; Col 3:1), far beyond the position of the pre-Fall Adam. In fact, we are seated together with Christ in the heavenlies (Eph 2:6). This identification with Him entails suffering together with Christ now (Rom 8:17), but also makes us heirs together with Christ (Rom 8:17). And we are glorified together with Christ (Rom 8:17) to ultimately reign together with Him (Rev 20:4).