What does it mean for me to live in the meanwhile?
As Christians we are in this wonderful balance between the fulfillment of God’s promises to us and the world he has given to us. This is the meanwhile.
I live in the meanwhile when my attitude and actions reflect that there is a hope for something yet to be attained and at the same time I do not fail to recognize the world that is currently surrounding me. This looks like being actively engaged in preparing myself and others to receive that which is the fulfillment of my entire life’s hope. I would count myself with Paul in saying that I will have wasted my WHOLE life and should be pitied if Christ, whom I have built my life upon – is not who He said He was and is. The meanwhile groans for what is to come while rejoicing in what exists now. The meanwhile does not use worldly standards of success or failure but believes and hopes all things in Christ Jesus. While I may be a wanderer or vagabond, I am never without aim or direction. To live in the meanwhile is to be profoundly affected by the grace of God daily – his grace was not in vain in my life, but continues to transform me into the very image of Jesus Himself.
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I wholeheartedly agree with what you have said, we do indeed groan inwardly as we wait for our adoption as sons and daughters into the actual redemption of our bodies at the end time.
But I also believe in the abundant, life-to-the-full living that Jesus spoke of. We live abundantly here and now as we borrow that future reality into the present. We do this by the power of the amazing down payment of our future reality, the Holy Spirit, as He allows us glimpses into heaven itself through a vibrant, personal and powerful relationship with Jesus.
Here's to living powerfully and purposefully in the meanwhile!
bobby
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