Hidden in Him

 During a quiet walk today, my thoughts turned to Nathanael — how Jesus saw him coming and said, “Here is a man with no guile.” Nathanael was surprised. “How do You know me?” he asked. And Jesus said, “I saw you before Philip called you, under the fig tree.”


That phrase has always felt like more than a moment in time. 


The fig tree takes me back to the beginning—where Adam hid himself beneath the covering of leaves, trying to hide from the One who had never stopped seeing him. 


It’s as if Jesus was saying to Nathanael, I saw you before you ever hid. 


Before you tried to cover yourself with the thought of guilt. I saw you as you truly are—pure, unveiled, without guile. I saw you in Me.


Even before you were formed in your mother’s womb, you were seen—fully known and already held within Christ. 


There was never a moment when you were outside His gaze or lost to His presence. He saw you before you were hidden because you were always hidden in Him.


The man who saw “men like trees walking” reminds me of this too—how fallen vision only sees shadows of truth, like roots in the earth, but not yet the full face of God in man. 


When Christ restores our sight, we see as He sees. We realize that what He always saw in us was innocence.


And it all echoes the heartbeat of Jesus in John 17, when He prayed, “Father, I pray that they may be one, even as We are one.” It’s like He was saying, “Let them awaken to what has always been true.” The prayer wasn’t for something to begin—but for our eyes to open to the union that has always been. 


From the beginning, that was the desire of God’s heart: the unveiling of our awareness, our return to the knowing that we were never apart. We were only learning to see ourselves as He has always seen us.


“For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3


Scripture references:

Nathanael under the fig tree — John 1:47–50

“He prayed that they may be one” — John 17

“Hidden with Christ in God” — Colossians 3:3

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  1. Mario AndradeJanuary 21, 2026 at 5:37 AM

    I’m loving your blog posts Maryanne! They are short and pact with power and contemplative revelation. Each post has made me go deeper into thought and meditation. Well done. Please keep them going.

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