Already and Not Yet

Heaven isn't just a far away place where God dwells and where we'll one day go. Heaven is now. God has launched his new creation through Christ and we are agents of that new creation. Those who have the Spirit dwelling within them are to be about bringing shalom to earth while we also wait for the perfecting of this new creation to be accomplished. This is what it means to live in the already and not yet. It looks like knowing we have victory over sin and death but still living in vulnerable bodies and dealing with sin and it's effects.