The Already and Not Yet

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Pieter Stok

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus …

Ephesians 2:6

Comprehension fails

and imagination struggles.

There and not there.

Here and not here.

In heaven,

and on earth.

Unfathomable truth.

Complete and at peace – eternal.

Incomplete and struggling – temporal.

The already and not yet.

Raised and ascended with Christ

but day by day struggling

with brokenness and sin.

But not forever.

The joy,

the inexpressible future

rings out:

The old order will pass

and every tear wiped away!