When the living move beyond dying while they are still living
they live in a different sort of way. By that I mean the inheritance of the
future is meant to be spent in the present without draining the principal held
in reserve for the future. Jesus in John said it this way, those who believe “have
already passed from death to life.” (John 5:24) So if the eyes of our hearts
have been enlightened our body follows suit and we love in such a way that the
everyday issues we think are essential become secondary to the desire to live
the future in the present. “Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive
disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still
recognize you and say, "Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you."
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta) The people who piss you off will off will be
sitting next to you at the future feast. That means the hope to which we have
been called in the future has a present purpose and we cannot be the church in
the present without living out the hope of the future where all things conform
to the grace of God in Jesus. Or as Paul will say later in the letter, “forgive
as you have been forgiven.” (Ephesians 4:32)
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