“The Apostle says, that having shared the Resurrection, we should share the Life of our risen LORD; that having received power, we should use it; that we should walk in the newness of life to which He raised us from our decay and death, ever conformed to His life, of Whose life we have been made partakers; that we should seek the things above, where CHRIST, our risen LORD, sitteth at the right hand of GOD. We have been made members of HIM Who is above. Our life is not here, since HE Who is our Life is not here, but above. Our life is not here, since that which is seen, our life in the flesh, is not our life: our life in the flesh were death, rather than life. Our life is above, the Apostle goes on to say, “hidden” with HIM Who is our Life, “with CHRIST in GOD,” and to be revealed in glory at His coming. “When CHRIST Who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with HIM in glory.” Then shall the saints of God appear and shine forth; now they are hidden, hidden from the world, hidden from themselves; their hidden life formed in them day by day; growing, they know not how or how much, through obedience to GOD’S holy guiding, by simple performances of duty, simple acts of self-denial.”

E. B. Pusey